Delayed on Ryanair from Manchester to Malaga?
£350each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 1,389
- Landed on time
- 73.5%
- Distance apart
- 1,862 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Manchester
£350each under UK law
Leaving Malaga
€400each under EU law
Manchester to Malaga is 1,862 km, which fixes the figure: £350 each leaving Manchester, 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 Ryanair does on this route
Better or worse than the route itself?
Everyone flying Manchester to Malaga 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 is 7.9 points better than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 4.6 minutes shorter.
Against its own network it is 1.7 points better than usual: Ryanair lands on time 71.8% of the time across all 351,290 of its UK flights a year, against 73.5% here.
In money terms: about 1 flight a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 1,000. Everyone on board one of those is owed £350 each.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 1,862 km, same £350 each.
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Ryanair flights between Manchester and Malaga
Ryanair flights we saw on this route in the last week. Tap yours, add your date, and we'll check it.
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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.