How much compensation for a delayed UK to Finland flight?
£350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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Flights between the UK and Finland are better than most of the 71 countries the UK flies to most for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 8,771
- Routes tracked
- 15
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 35a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
£350each if you land 3 hours or more late
Every route the CAA tracks between the UK and Finland falls in the same distance band (Over 1,500 to 3,500 km), so a delay of 3 hours or more pays a flat £350 each if the flight left the UK (€400 under EU261 if it left Finland instead and the airline was a UK or EU carrier). Find your route below.
| Route | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|
| Heathrow → Helsinki | £350each |
| Manchester → Helsinki | £350each |
| Stansted → Helsinki | £350each |
| Edinburgh → Helsinki | £350each |
| Gatwick → Helsinki | £350each |
| Stansted → Rovaniemi | £350each |
| Gatwick → Rovaniemi | £350each |
| Manchester → Rovaniemi | £350each |
| Gatwick → Kittila | £350each |
| Manchester → Kittila | £350each |
| Bristol → Rovaniemi | £350each |
| Birmingham → Rovaniemi | £350each |
| Gatwick → Ivalo | £350each |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) → Rovaniemi | £350each |
| Luton → Rovaniemi | £350each |
All 15 tracked UK ↔ Finland routes, sorted by yearly flight volume. Figures are each; the EU version of the law pays €400 for the same band.
The figure is payable only when the delay was within the airline's control. A technical fault, a crew shortage or a late inbound aircraft all count; genuinely extraordinary circumstances such as severe weather or an air traffic control restriction do not.
How bad is it
Do flights between the UK and Finland get delayed a lot?
No, less than most. They're better than most of the 71 countries the UK flies to most, with 0.4% of flights landing 3 or more hours late.
That works out at about 35 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.
Flying home rather than out?
Coming back from Finland it's €400 rather than £350, because departures from there fall under the EU version of the rules.
When is it worst?
December 2025, when flights between the UK and Finland ran an average of 27.2 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Finland
In the last 12 months, 8,771 flights operated between the UK and Finland: 70.0% ran within 15 minutes of schedule, and 0.4% were 3 or more hours late, roughly 35 flights' worth of eligible passengers in a year. The CAA's figures don't separate arrivals from departures, so this covers the corridor both ways.
Flights are landing on time more often than last year: 70.0% ran on time against 66.3% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 16.1 to 15.5 minutes.
Flights (12mo)
8,771
On time
70.0%
▲ 3.7pts vs last year
Avg delay
15.5 min
▼ 0.6 min vs last year
3 hours or more late
0.4%
Cancelled
1.5%
Finland, month by month
Worst month: December 2025, averaging 27.2 minutes.
Busiest routes between the UK and Finland
| UK airport | Destination | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|---|
| Heathrow | Helsinki | £350each |
| Manchester | Helsinki | £350each |
| Stansted | Helsinki | £350each |
| Edinburgh | Helsinki | £350each |
| Gatwick | Helsinki | £350each |
| Stansted | Rovaniemi | £350each |
| Gatwick | Rovaniemi | £350each |
| Manchester | Rovaniemi | £350each |
| Gatwick | Kittila | £350each |
| Manchester | Kittila | £350each |
| Bristol | Rovaniemi | £350each |
| Birmingham | Rovaniemi | £350each |
| Gatwick | Ivalo | £350each |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | Rovaniemi | £350each |
| Luton | Rovaniemi | £350each |
Where you fly from
UK airports flying to Finland
| Airport | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|
| Heathrow | 0.2% | 74.0% |
| Manchester | 0.4% | 65.0% |
| Stansted | 0.3% | 78.2% |
| Gatwick | 1.0% | 64.2% |
| Edinburgh | <0.5% | 70.7% |
| Birmingham | 1.3% | 58.0% |
| Bristol | 0.9% | 59.8% |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | <0.5% | 64.7% |
| Luton | 2.7% | 64.4% |
Who flies there
Airlines flying between the UK and Finland
| Airline | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|
| Finnair | 0.1% | 73.4% |
| Ryanair | 0.5% | 75.5% |
| easyJet | 1.9% | 61.0% |
| Norwegian | 0.4% | 63.5% |
| Jet2.com | 1.3% | 56.9% |
| TUI Airways | 0.3% | 54.1% |
| Enter Air | 2.1% | 35.0% |
| British Airways | 3.4% | 72.7% |
| Titan Airways | 1.2% | 47.4% |
Your rights
Your rights on this corridor
Every flight leaving the UK for Finland is covered by UK law, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, landing in the UK from Finland, are covered too if a UK or EU airline operated them; a return flight on a non-UK, non-EU carrier falls outside it, though the Montreal Convention and Finland's own rules may still give you a claim. See the full breakdown on the 3-hour rule. Cancelled instead of delayed? Broadly the same amounts apply under different conditions. See cancelled flight compensation.
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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.