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Delayed on Jet2.com from Newcastle to Alicante?

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Flights a year
688
Landed on time
81.3%
Distance apart
1,865 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Newcastle

£350each under UK law

Leaving Alicante

€400each under EU law

Newcastle to Alicante is 1,865 km, which fixes the figure: £350 each leaving Newcastle, 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 Jet2.com does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Newcastle to Alicante 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 Jet2.com Everyone
Landed on time 81.3% 76.8%
Average delay 9.6 min 11.9 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.0% 0.1%

On this route Jet2.com is 4.5 points better than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 2.3 minutes shorter.

Against its own network it is 14.6 points better than usual: Jet2.com lands on time 66.7% of the time across all 125,825 of its UK flights a year, against 81.3% here.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 1,865 km, same £350.

Everything we hold on Newcastle to Alicante · Jet2.com 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.