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Flights a year
1,088
Landed on time
64.6%
Distance apart
1,379 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Manchester

£220each under UK law

Leaving Barcelona

€250each under EU law

Manchester to Barcelona is 1,379 km, which fixes the figure: £220 each leaving Manchester, 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 Vueling Airlines does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Manchester to Barcelona 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 Vueling Everyone
Landed on time 64.6% 61.7%
Average delay 18.4 min 20.2 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.7% 0.6%

On this route Vueling Airlines is 2.9 points better than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 1.8 minutes shorter.

Against its own network it is 11.9 points worse than usual: Vueling Airlines lands on time 76.5% of the time across all 21,926 of its UK flights a year, against 64.6% here.

In money terms: about 8 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 140. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 1,379 km, same £220 each.

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Vueling Airlines flights between Manchester and Barcelona

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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.