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Delayed on easyJet from Luton to Faro?

£350each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
1,514
Landed on time
70.5%
Distance apart
1,757 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Luton

£350each under UK law

Leaving Faro

€400each under EU law

Luton to Faro is 1,757 km, which fixes the figure: £350 each leaving Luton, and €400 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 £1,400.

How easyJet does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Luton to Faro 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 easyJet Everyone
Landed on time 70.5% 73.0%
Average delay 15.8 min 14.6 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.2% 0.2%

easyJet flies 65% of this route, so the right-hand column is mostly its own flights being averaged back at it. The comparison that means something here is against the rest of its network.

Against its own network it is about the same as usual: easyJet lands on time 71.9% of the time across all 398,684 of its UK flights a year, against 70.5% 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 £350 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 1,757 km, same £350.

Airline Landed on time
Jet2.com 82.1% Ryanair 76.2%

Everything we hold on Luton to Faro · easyJet 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.