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Delayed on easyJet from Manchester to Paris (Charles de Gaulle)?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
3,023
Landed on time
55.7%
Land 3 hrs or more late
15a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Manchester

£220each under UK law

Leaving Paris (Charles de Gaulle)

€250each under EU law

Manchester to Paris (Charles de Gaulle) is 588 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 easyJet does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Manchester to Paris (Charles de Gaulle) 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 55.7% 56.1%
Average delay 23.4 min 23.5 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.5% 0.8%

Against its own network it is 16.2 points worse than usual: easyJet lands on time 71.9% of the time across all 398,684 of its UK flights a year, against 55.7% here.

In money terms: about 15 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 200. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for easyJet.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 588 km, same £220.

Airline Landed on time
Air France 56.5%

Everything we hold on Manchester to Paris (Charles de Gaulle) · 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.