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Delayed on BA CityFlyer from London City to Milan (Linate)?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
1,610
Landed on time
80.9%
Distance apart
956 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving London City

£220each under UK law

Leaving Milan (Linate)

€250each under EU law

London City to Milan (Linate) is 956 km, which fixes the figure: £220 each leaving London City, and €250 each coming back the other way, because that leg departs under the EU's version of the rules. It is per person, so four of you is £880.

How BA CityFlyer does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying London City to Milan (Linate) hits the same airspace and the same two airports, so the honest question is not whether the route is busy, it is whether this airline handles it better or worse than the others on it.

On this route BA CityFlyer Everyone
Landed on time 80.9% 83.0%
Average delay 10.1 min 8.5 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.2% 0.1%

On this route BA CityFlyer is 2.1 points worse than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 1.6 minutes longer.

Against its own network it is 5.6 points better than usual: BA CityFlyer lands on time 75.3% of the time across all 38,661 of its UK flights a year, against 80.9% here.

In money terms: about 3 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 500. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 956 km, same £220.

Airline Landed on time
Italia Traspoto Aereo 84.1%

Everything we hold on London City to Milan (Linate) · BA CityFlyer across every UK airport

Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority punctuality statistics, July 2025 to June 2026. Analysis by CheckFlightCompensation; the CAA is credited as the data source as its publication conditions require. Figures cover the 25 largest UK airports. Methodology and limitations.