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Delayed on Ryanair from Manchester to Copenhagen?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
934
Landed on time
71.8%
Distance apart
995 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Manchester

£220each under UK law

Leaving Copenhagen

€250each under EU law

Manchester to Copenhagen is 995 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 Ryanair does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Manchester to Copenhagen 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 Ryanair Everyone
Landed on time 71.8% 65.1%
Average delay 15.5 min 19 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.2% 0.4%

On this route Ryanair is 6.7 points better than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 3.5 minutes shorter.

Against its own network it is about the same as usual: Ryanair lands on time 71.1% of the time across all 348,181 of its UK flights a year, against 71.8% here.

In money terms: about 2 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 995 km, same £220.

Everything we hold on Manchester to Copenhagen · Ryanair 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.