Delayed on Ryanair from Stansted to Malaga?
£350each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 2,211
- Landed on time
- 68.3%
- Distance apart
- 1,732 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Stansted
£350each under UK law
Leaving Malaga
€400each under EU law
Stansted to Malaga is 1,732 km, which fixes the figure: £350 each leaving Stansted, 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 Stansted 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.
Ryanair flies 81% 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 2.8 points worse than usual: Ryanair lands on time 71.1% of the time across all 348,181 of its UK flights a year, against 68.3% here.
In money terms: about 9 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 250. Everyone on board one of those is owed £350 each.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 1,732 km, same £350.
Everything we hold on Stansted to Malaga · 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.