How much compensation for a delayed Emerald Airlines flight?
£220 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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Emerald Airlines is worse than most of the 80 airlines flying at UK airports for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 19,982
- Landed on time
- 73.7%
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 200a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Every Emerald Airlines route we hold a distance for falls in the same band, so that is the figure. About 200 Emerald Airlines flights a year cross that line.
What it pays
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Emerald Airlines flies from 5 UK airports, so there is no single distance and no single figure. Open the one you flew from and every destination is priced.
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How bad is it
Does Emerald Airlines get delayed a lot?
Yes, more than most. It's worse than most of the 80 airlines flying at UK airports, with about 1 flight in 100 landing 3 or more hours late (1.0%).
That works out at about 200 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
December 2025, when Emerald Airlines flights ran an average of 21.5 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Emerald Airlines
In the last 12 months, Emerald Airlines operated 19,982 flights at UK airports, and 1.0% were 3 or more hours late, the threshold where £220 each becomes payable.
Flights are landing on time less often than last year: 73.7% ran on time against 82.4% in the twelve months before, and the average delay rose from 10.8 to 15.6 minutes.
| Emerald Airlines, last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights at UK airports | 19,982 | was 17,958 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 73.7% | ▼ was 82.4% |
| Average delay | 15.6 min | ▲ was 10.8 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | 1.0% | - |
| Cancelled | 2.7% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | 200 flights/year | - |
The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers both directions of travel.
Emerald Airlines' delays, month by month
Worst month: December 2025, averaging 21.5 minutes.
Where it flies
Emerald Airlines at each UK airport
| Airport | Flights | Avg delay | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belfast City (George Best) | 14,787 | 15.8 min | 1.1% | 73.6% |
| Bristol | 2,800 | 14.6 min | 0.8% | 75.1% |
| Isle of Man | 1,063 | 14.4 min | 0.3% | 73.3% |
| Cardiff Wales | 565 | 15.6 min | 1.2% | 73.1% |
| Exeter | 377 | 12.5 min | 1.2% | 75.0% |
How to claim
Claiming from Emerald Airlines
Airlines rarely pay compensation on their own. Nothing happens until someone claims, and plenty of first claims come back refused when the airline blames something outside its control.
Emerald Airlines operates Aer Lingus Regional flights but has no compensation claims process of its own; its contact page directs EU261/UK261 claims to the Aer Lingus website.
The rules do not change with the airline. What decides your claim is where the flight took off and how late it landed, not whose aircraft it was.
Checked against Emerald Airlines's own site on 12 August 2026.
Your rights
What the rules turn on
Where the flight departed decides everything, not the airline's nationality. Anything leaving a UK airport is covered by UK261 whoever operates it, and anything leaving the EU by EU261. A delay of 3 or more hours on arrival pays £220 each on the distances Emerald Airlines flies, when the cause was within the airline's control, which covers technical faults, crew shortages and the knock-on from a late inbound aircraft. It pays nothing when the cause was genuinely extraordinary, though airlines stretch that word further than the case law supports, so a refusal on those grounds is worth testing rather than accepting.
Other airlines
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.