How much compensation for a delayed Ryanair flight from Stansted?
£220 or £350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 143,628
- Landed on time
- 70.4%
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 718a 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 718 flights a year on this one cross the 3-hour line.
What it pays
What Ryanair owes you from Stansted
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 Stansted?
0.5% of Ryanair's 143,628 flights a year at Stansted land 3 or more hours late, which works out at about 718 flights a year crossing the line where the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
July 2025, when Ryanair flights at Stansted ran an average of 28 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Ryanair at Stansted
In the last 12 months, Ryanair operated 143,628 flights at Stansted, 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: 70.4% ran on time against 64.7% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 19.8 to 16.6 minutes.
| Ryanair at Stansted, last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights at Stansted | 143,628 | was 141,999 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 70.4% | ▲ was 64.7% |
| Average delay | 16.6 min | ▼ was 19.8 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | 0.5% | - |
| Cancelled | 0.3% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | 718 flights/year | - |
The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers traffic both ways, not departures alone.
Ryanair at Stansted, month by month
Worst month: July 2025, averaging 28 minutes.
Route by route
Ryanair's busiest routes at Stansted
| Destination | Flights | Distance | Avg delay | 3 hours or more late | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dublin | 6,055 | 470 km | 15.9 min | 0.3% | £220each |
| Rome (Ciampino) | 3,300 | 1,459 km | 11.6 min | 0.3% | £220each |
| Barcelona | 2,971 | 1,186 km | 19.9 min | 0.8% | £220each |
| Bergamo | 2,931 | 978 km | 20.6 min | 0.4% | £220each |
| Madrid | 2,796 | 1,300 km | 21.1 min | 0.5% | £220each |
| Budapest | 2,688 | 1,451 km | 13.5 min | 0.3% | £220each |
| Bucharest (Otopeni) | 2,634 | 2,067 km | 14.5 min | 0.3% | £350each |
| Alicante | 2,423 | 1,514 km | 17.6 min | 0.7% | £350each |
From our own tracking
Recent Ryanair flights into Stansted that ran late
Every Ryanair arrival at Stansted we logged running 3 or more hours late, or cancelled, 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.
Ryanair
Berlin → London Stansted Airport
7 Oct · 07:40 → 14:10
Ryanair
Malmö → London Stansted Airport
7 Oct · 11:15 → 14:21
Ryanair
Barcelona → London Stansted Airport
5 Oct · 11:55 → 15:49
Ryanair
Torino → London Stansted Airport
4 Oct · 17:50 → 22:59
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Your rights
Your rights on this route
Stansted 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
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.