How much compensation for a delayed Iberia Express flight?
£220 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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Iberia Express is one of the 10 best of the 80 airlines flying at UK airports for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 1,914
- Landed on time
- 81.5%
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Every Iberia Express route we hold a distance for falls in the same band, so that is the figure. It is rare on Iberia Express, but the payout is the same when it happens.
What it pays
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Iberia Express flies from 2 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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If it lands 3 hours or more late we email you what you're owed.
How bad is it
Does Iberia Express get delayed a lot?
No, less than most. It's one of the 10 best of the 80 airlines flying at UK airports, with fewer than 1 in 200 flights landing 3 or more hours late (0.0%).
When is it worst?
July 2025, when Iberia Express flights ran an average of 16.9 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Iberia Express
In the last 12 months, Iberia Express operated 1,914 flights at UK airports, and fewer than 1 in 200 flights were 3 or more hours late, the threshold where £220 each becomes payable.
Flights are landing on time more often than last year: 81.5% ran on time against 73.7% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 13.9 to 8.8 minutes.
| Iberia Express, last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights at UK airports | 1,914 | was 2,104 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 81.5% | ▲ was 73.7% |
| Average delay | 8.8 min | ▼ was 13.9 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | <0.5% | - |
| Cancelled | 0.0% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | rare | - |
The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers both directions of travel.
Iberia Express' delays, month by month
Worst month: July 2025, averaging 16.9 minutes.
Where it flies
Iberia Express at each UK airport
| Airport | Flights | Avg delay | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gatwick | 1,296 | 6.6 min | <0.5% | 87.4% |
| Manchester | 514 | 14.2 min | <0.5% | 67.7% |
How to claim
Claiming from Iberia Express
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.
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.
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 Iberia Express 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.