How much compensation for a delayed Wizz Air flight from Liverpool (John Lennon)?
£220 or £350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 1,361
- Landed on time
- 82.5%
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 5a 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 5 flights a year on this one cross the 3-hour line.
What it pays
What Wizz Air owes you from Liverpool (John Lennon)
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 Wizz Air get delayed a lot at Liverpool (John Lennon)?
0.4% of Wizz Air's 1,361 flights a year at Liverpool (John Lennon) land 3 or more hours late, which works out at about 5 flights a year crossing the line where the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
February 2026, when Wizz Air flights at Liverpool (John Lennon) ran an average of 24.8 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Wizz Air at Liverpool (John Lennon)
In the last 12 months, Wizz Air operated 1,361 flights at Liverpool (John Lennon), and 0.4% 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: 82.5% ran on time against 77.6% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 17.3 to 10 minutes.
| Wizz Air at Liverpool (John Lennon), last 12 months | Figure | vs year before |
|---|---|---|
| Flights at Liverpool (John Lennon) | 1,361 | was 1,702 |
| Ran on time (within 15 min) | 82.5% | ▲ was 77.6% |
| Average delay | 10 min | ▼ was 17.3 min |
| 3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) | 0.4% | - |
| Cancelled | 0.3% | - |
| Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) | 5 flights/year | - |
The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers traffic both ways, not departures alone.
Wizz Air at Liverpool (John Lennon), month by month
Worst month: February 2026, averaging 24.8 minutes.
Route by route
Wizz Air's busiest routes at Liverpool (John Lennon)
| Destination | Flights | Distance | Avg delay | 3 hours or more late | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warsaw (Chopin) | 372 | 1,601 km | 8.7 min | 0.8% | £350each |
| Iasi | 294 | 2,252 km | 10 min | 0.3% | £350each |
| Bucharest (Otopeni) | 286 | 2,307 km | 14.8 min | 0.3% | £350each |
| Gdansk | 242 | 1,397 km | 7.1 min | <0.5% | £220each |
| Katowice | 101 | 1,531 km | 10.3 min | <0.5% | £350each |
| Budapest | 66 | 1,691 km | 7.2 min | <0.5% | £350each |
Your rights
Your rights on this route
Liverpool (John Lennon) 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.
Wizz Air from other airports
Other airlines at Liverpool (John Lennon)
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.