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Delayed on Air France from Newcastle to Paris (Charles de Gaulle)?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
1,682
Landed on time
70.8%
Distance apart
730 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Newcastle

£220each under UK law

Leaving Paris (Charles de Gaulle)

€250each under EU law

Newcastle to Paris (Charles de Gaulle) is 730 km, which fixes the figure: £220 each leaving Newcastle, 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 Air France does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Newcastle 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 Air France Everyone
Landed on time 70.8% 68.7%
Average delay 14.7 min 16.2 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.3% 0.3%

Air France flies 82% of this route, so the right-hand column is mostly its own flights being averaged back at it. The comparison that means something here is against the rest of its network.

Against its own network it is 2.2 points better than usual: Air France lands on time 68.6% of the time across all 13,558 of its UK flights a year, against 70.8% here.

In money terms: about 5 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 330. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 730 km, same £220.

Airline Landed on time
easyJet 59.5%

Everything we hold on Newcastle to Paris (Charles de Gaulle) · Air France 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.