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How much compensation for a delayed Eurowings Luftverkehrs flight?

£220 each, if you land 3 hours or more late

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Eurowings Luftverkehrs is better than most of the 80 airlines flying at UK airports for 3-hour delays.

Flights a year
13,418
Landed on time
69.3%
Land 3 hrs or more late
27a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Every Eurowings Luftverkehrs route we hold a distance for falls in the same band, so that is the figure. About 27 Eurowings Luftverkehrs flights a year cross that line.

What it pays

Pick the airport you flew from

Eurowings Luftverkehrs flies from 6 UK airports, so there is no single distance and no single figure. Open the one you flew from and every destination is priced.

From
Heathrow 8,336 flights a year £220each
Manchester 1,951 flights a year £220each
Birmingham 1,232 flights a year £220each
Edinburgh 1,099 flights a year £220each
Gatwick 464 flights a year £220each
Newcastle 302 flights a year £220each

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How bad is it

Does Eurowings Luftverkehrs get delayed a lot?

No, less than most. It's better than most of the 80 airlines flying at UK airports, with about 1 flight in 500 landing 3 or more hours late (0.2%).

That works out at about 27 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.

When is it worst?

January 2026, when Eurowings Luftverkehrs flights ran an average of 20.6 minutes late.

See all the numbers for Eurowings Luftverkehrs

In the last 12 months, Eurowings Luftverkehrs operated 13,418 flights at UK airports, and 0.2% were 3 or more hours late, the threshold where £220 each becomes payable.

Flights are landing on time more often than last year: 69.3% ran on time against 69.1% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 15.8 to 14.8 minutes.

Eurowings Luftverkehrs, last 12 months
Eurowings Luftverkehrs, last 12 months Figure vs year before
Flights at UK airports 13,418 was 13,048
Ran on time (within 15 min) 69.3% ▲ was 69.1%
Average delay 14.8 min ▼ was 15.8 min
3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) 0.2% -
Cancelled 1.2% -
Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) 27 flights/year -

The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers both directions of travel.

Eurowings Luftverkehrs' delays, month by month

16m
16.4m
20.4m
16.3m
11.3m
17.1m
20.6m
10.7m
10.7m
8.3m
13.6m
16.2m
JulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Worst month: January 2026, averaging 20.6 minutes.

Where it flies

Eurowings Luftverkehrs at each UK airport

Airport 3 hours or more late Landed on time
Heathrow 0.2%
69.2%
Manchester 0.1%
70.6%
Birmingham 0.2%
73.6%
Edinburgh 0.5%
59.6%
Gatwick 0.4%
73.2%
Newcastle <0.5%
73.1%

From our own tracking

Recent Eurowings Luftverkehrs flights we logged running late

Every Eurowings Luftverkehrs arrival we logged running 3 or more hours late, or cancelled, at the airports we sweep since August. Newest first, and only flights UK or EU rules cover. A cancelled row carries no figure because what it pays turns on the notice you were given. Amounts are per person on the booking (half on the longest flights that landed 3 to 4 hours late). Airlines can still dispute a claim by proving the cause was outside their control, so check yours for the real answer.

EW9462

Eurowings

3 hrs 6 min

Düsseldorf → London Heathrow Airport

6 Oct · 07:25 → 10:31

Claim €250AD€250 each, minus the claim firm's success fee, typically 20-30% plus VAT.

EW7460

Eurowings

Cancelled

Hamburg → London Heathrow Airport

6 Oct · 08:05

Depends on the notice you got

EW8460

Eurowings

Cancelled

Berlin → London Heathrow Airport

6 Oct · 08:10

Depends on the notice you got

EW2460

Eurowings

Cancelled

Stuttgart → London Heathrow Airport

6 Oct · 08:25

Depends on the notice you got

EW9464

Eurowings

Cancelled

Düsseldorf → London Heathrow Airport

6 Oct · 11:30

Depends on the notice you got

EW2480

Eurowings

Cancelled

Stuttgart → Edinburgh Airport

5 Oct · 17:50

Depends on the notice you got

EW2464

Eurowings

Cancelled

Stuttgart → London Heathrow Airport

5 Oct · 19:05

Depends on the notice you got

EW9466

Eurowings

3 hrs 18 min

Düsseldorf → London Heathrow Airport

4 Oct · 16:25 → 19:43

Claim €250AD€250 each, minus the claim firm's success fee, typically 20-30% plus VAT.

EW2480

Eurowings

Cancelled

Stuttgart → Edinburgh Airport

20 Sept · 08:55

Depends on the notice you got

EW7768

Eurowings

Cancelled

Hamburg → Manchester Airport

20 Sept · 15:05

Depends on the notice you got

EW9460

Eurowings

Cancelled

Düsseldorf → London Heathrow Airport

8 Sept · 14:05

Depends on the notice you got

EW9332

Eurowings

Cancelled

Düsseldorf → Birmingham Airport

8 Sept · 15:05

Depends on the notice you got

EW9466

Eurowings

Cancelled

Düsseldorf → London Heathrow Airport

8 Sept · 16:25

Depends on the notice you got

EW2468

Eurowings

Cancelled

Stuttgart → London Gatwick Airport

8 Sept · 17:45

Depends on the notice you got

EW8464

Eurowings

Cancelled

Berlin → London Heathrow Airport

8 Sept · 18:05

Depends on the notice you got

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How to claim

Claiming from Eurowings Luftverkehrs

Eurowings Luftverkehrs does not pay compensation automatically. Nothing happens until someone claims, and plenty of first claims come back refused when the airline blames something outside its control.

On codeshare flights, Eurowings directs compensation claims to whichever airline actually operated the flight, not necessarily the one you booked with.

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 Eurowings Luftverkehrs'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 Eurowings Luftverkehrs 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.

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More on your rights

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.