How much compensation for a delayed Ryanair flight from Bristol?
£220 or £350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 14,824
- Landed on time
- 74.8%
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 74a 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 74 flights a year on this one cross the 3-hour line.
What it pays
What Ryanair owes you from Bristol
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 Ryanair get delayed a lot at Bristol?
0.5% of Ryanair's 14,824 flights a year at Bristol land 3 or more hours late, which works out at about 74 flights a year crossing the line where the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
July 2025, when Ryanair flights at Bristol ran an average of 22.8 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Ryanair at Bristol
In the last 12 months, Ryanair operated 14,824 flights at Bristol, and 0.5% 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: 74.8% ran on time against 72.3% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 16.8 to 14.4 minutes.
| Ryanair at Bristol, last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights at Bristol | 14,824 | was 13,531 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 74.8% | ▲ was 72.3% |
| Average delay | 14.4 min | ▼ was 16.8 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | 0.5% | - |
| Cancelled | 0.2% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | 74 flights/year | - |
The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers traffic both ways, not departures alone.
Ryanair at Bristol, month by month
Worst month: July 2025, averaging 22.8 minutes.
Route by route
Ryanair's busiest routes at Bristol
| Destination | Flights | Distance | Avg delay | 3 hours or more late | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dublin | 2,303 | 331 km | 14.4 min | 0.2% | £220each |
| Alicante | 1,243 | 1,466 km | 12.3 min | 0.3% | £220each |
| Malaga | 784 | 1,641 km | 12.7 min | 0.4% | £350each |
| Krakow | 717 | 1,584 km | 11.5 min | 0.3% | £350each |
| Palma de Mallorca | 676 | 1,382 km | 21.1 min | 0.9% | £220each |
| Budapest | 588 | 1,643 km | 14 min | 0.3% | £350each |
| Barcelona | 564 | 1,180 km | 18.8 min | 0.7% | £220each |
| Arrecife | 510 | 2,654 km | 11.2 min | 0.2% | £350each |
Your rights
Your rights on this route
Bristol 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.
Ryanair from other airports
Other airlines at Bristol
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.