How much compensation for a delayed Manchester to Alicante flight?
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£350each if you land 3 hours or more late (€400 flying home from Spain)
This route is worse than most of Britain's 200 busiest routes for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 5,310
- Distance apart
- 1,681 km
- Land 3 hours or more late
- 37 a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Manchester
£350each under UK law
Leaving Alicante
€400each under EU law
Alicante is in the EU, so this applies whichever airline you fly.
Either figure is payable only when the delay was within the airline's control. A technical fault, a crew shortage or a late inbound aircraft all count; genuinely extraordinary circumstances such as severe weather or an air traffic control restriction do not.
Manchester and Alicante are 1,681 km apart (Over 1,500 to 3,500 km), and that distance is all that decides the amount. Which figure applies depends only on which end of the route you departed from, not which way you were travelling.
How many were on the booking
£350 each. £1,400 for a family of four.
Flying home from Alicante: €400, €800, €1,600. Everyone with their own seat is paid, children included.
What it pays
Every way a Manchester to Alicante flight can pay you
Find the line that matches what happened to you. The money is the same whether you landed 3 hours late or 9, because it is the distance that sets the price, not the wait.
How close the replacement flight has to be before a cancellation stops paying.
How bad is this route
Does this route get delayed a lot?
Yes, more than most. It's worse than most of Britain's 200 busiest routes, with about 1 flight in 140 landing 3 hours or more late (0.7%).
That works out at about 37 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
July 2026, when flights on this route ran an average of 33.5 minutes late.
From our own tracking
Recent delays on this route
Every flight on this route we logged running 3 hours or more late, or cancelled, since August. Each row shows the direction it actually flew, and only flights UK or EU rules cover are listed, so you may see far more of one heading than the other. Amounts are per person on the booking (half on the longest flights that landed 3 to 4 hours late). Airlines can still dispute a claim by proving the cause was outside their control, so check yours for the real answer. We earn a fee if you claim through a Claim link.
Ryanair UK
Alicante → Manchester Airport
31 Aug · due 01:15, landed 14:20
Ryanair
Alicante → Manchester Airport
20 Aug · due 16:20, landed 21:37
easyJet
Alicante → Manchester Airport
22 Sept · due 13:40, landed 18:13
Ryanair
Alicante → Manchester Airport
21 Aug · due 01:05, landed 05:10
Jet2
Alicante → Manchester Airport
22 Sept · due 14:35, landed 17:37
Jet2
Alicante → Manchester Airport
26 Sept · due 13:50, landed 16:50
easyJet
Alicante → Manchester Airport
8 Sept · due 13:40
easyJet
Alicante → Manchester Airport
9 Sept · due 20:25
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Flights between Manchester and Alicante
Flights we saw on this route in the last week. Tap yours, add your date, and we'll check it.
Leaving Manchester for Alicante · take-off time
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Landing at Manchester from Alicante · landing time
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In the last 12 months, 5,310 flights operated between Manchester and Alicante, and 0.7% were 3 hours or more late, the threshold where £350 each becomes payable under UK261 (€400 under EU261).
Flights are landing on time less often than last year: 61.4% ran on time against 62.5% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 21.8 to 21.4 minutes.
| Manchester to Alicante, last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights on this route | 5,310 | was 5,242 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 61.4% | ▼ was 62.5% |
| Average delay | 21.4 min | ▼ was 21.8 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | 0.7% | - |
| Cancelled | 0.1% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | 37 flights/year | - |
The CAA's figures don't separate arrivals from departures, so this covers the route both ways.
Manchester to Alicante, month by month
Worst month: July 2026, averaging 33.5 minutes.
Airlines on this route
Airlines flying this route
| Airline | 3 hrs or more late3 hours or more late | Landed on time | If late |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryanair | 0.8% | 66.9% | £350each |
| easyJet | 0.4% | 64.5% | £350each |
| Jet2.com | 0.7% | 47.5% | £350each |
| TUI Airways | 1.7% | 47.0% | £350each |
Your rights
Your rights on this route
Every flight leaving Manchester for Alicante is covered by UK law, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, leaving Alicante for Manchester, are covered too if a UK or EU airline operated them; a flight that way on a non-UK, non-EU carrier falls outside it, though the Montreal Convention may still give you a claim. See the full breakdown on the 3-hour rule. Cancelled instead of delayed? Broadly the same amounts apply under different conditions. See cancelled flight compensation. Flying somewhere else in Spain? See every route between the UK and Spain.
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Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority punctuality statistics, August 2025 to July 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.