How much compensation for a delayed Norwegian flight from Gatwick?
£220 or £350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 10,487
- Landed on time
- 78.6%
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 21a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
It depends where you were going, and the table below has every destination priced. About 21 flights a year on this one cross the 3-hour line.
What it pays
What Norwegian owes you from Gatwick
One airport, so the figure is exact. Find where you were going.
Four of you on one booking is £880 or £1,400.
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How bad is it
Does Norwegian get delayed a lot at Gatwick?
0.2% of Norwegian's 10,487 flights a year at Gatwick land 3 or more hours late, which works out at about 21 flights a year crossing the line where the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
September 2025, when Norwegian flights at Gatwick ran an average of 16.8 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Norwegian at Gatwick
In the last 12 months, Norwegian operated 10,487 flights at Gatwick, and 0.2% were 3 or more hours late, the threshold where £220 or £350 each becomes payable.
Flights are landing on time more often than last year: 78.6% ran on time against 71.7% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 14.5 to 10.4 minutes.
| Norwegian at Gatwick, last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights at Gatwick | 10,487 | was 10,678 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 78.6% | ▲ was 71.7% |
| Average delay | 10.4 min | ▼ was 14.5 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | 0.2% | - |
| Cancelled | 0.6% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | 21 flights/year | - |
The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers traffic both ways, not departures alone.
Norwegian at Gatwick, month by month
Worst month: September 2025, averaging 16.8 minutes.
Route by route
Norwegian's busiest routes at Gatwick
| Destination | Flights | Distance | Avg delay | 3 hours or more late | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oslo (Gardermoen) | 2,437 | 1,226 km | 11.1 min | 0.1% | £220each |
| Copenhagen | 2,393 | 984 km | 10.2 min | 0.1% | £220each |
| Stockholm (Arlanda) | 1,830 | 1,475 km | 9.5 min | 0.3% | £220each |
| Bergen | 1,366 | 1,071 km | 9.6 min | 0.2% | £220each |
| Stavanger | 532 | 935 km | 8.2 min | 0.4% | £220each |
| Billund | 518 | 801 km | 7.7 min | <0.5% | £220each |
| Helsinki | 448 | 1,858 km | 17.1 min | 0.4% | £350each |
| Trondheim (Vaernes) | 307 | 1,518 km | 14.2 min | 0.7% | £350each |
Your rights
Your rights on this route
Gatwick is a UK airport, so every flight departing from it is covered by UK261, whichever airline you fly with. Delays of 3 or more hours pay £220 to £520 each depending on how far you were flying, and the table above gives the exact figure for each of these routes. See the full breakdown on the 3-hour rule. If the flight is cancelled instead of delayed, broadly the same amounts apply under different conditions. See cancelled flight compensation.
Other airlines at Gatwick
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.