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How much compensation for a delayed Wideroe Flyveselskap flight?

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

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

Flights a year
2,137
Landed on time
90.1%
Land 3 hrs or more late
2a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Every Wideroe Flyveselskap route we hold a distance for falls in the same band, so that is the figure. About 2 Wideroe Flyveselskap flights a year cross that line.

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How bad is it

Does Wideroe Flyveselskap 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 1,000 landing 3 or more hours late (0.1%).

That works out at about 2 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.

When is it worst?

January 2026, when Wideroe Flyveselskap flights ran an average of 9.2 minutes late.

See all the numbers for Wideroe Flyveselskap

In the last 12 months, Wideroe Flyveselskap operated 2,137 flights at UK airports, and 0.1% were 3 or more hours late, the threshold where £220 each becomes payable.

Flights are landing on time more often than last year: 90.1% ran on time against 85.6% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 5.4 to 4.6 minutes.

Wideroe Flyveselskap, last 12 months
Wideroe Flyveselskap, last 12 months Figure vs year before
Flights at UK airports 2,137 was 2,077
Ran on time (within 15 min) 90.1% ▲ was 85.6%
Average delay 4.6 min ▼ was 5.4 min
3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) 0.1% -
Cancelled 2.6% -
Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) 2 flights/year -

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

Wideroe Flyveselskap's delays, month by month

4.1m
2.1m
3.7m
3.3m
5.9m
3.5m
9.2m
4.1m
7.6m
4.1m
3.2m
4.5m
JulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Worst month: January 2026, averaging 9.2 minutes.

Where it flies

Wideroe Flyveselskap at each UK airport

Airport 3 hours or more late Landed on time
Aberdeen 0.1%
90.1%

How to claim

Claiming from Wideroe Flyveselskap

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 Wideroe Flyveselskap 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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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.