How much compensation for a delayed UK to Greece flight?
£350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
Check your flight
FreePick your airports and the date you flew. We'll list every flight on that route that day.
A few quick questions. No personal details needed.
Flights between the UK and Greece are about average for the 71 countries the UK flies to most for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 66,061
- Routes tracked
- 15
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 330a 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 Greece 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 Greece instead and the airline was a UK or EU carrier). Find your route below.
| Route | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|
| Heathrow → Athens | £350each |
| Gatwick → Athens | £350each |
| Gatwick → Corfu | £350each |
| Gatwick → Heraklion | £350each |
| Gatwick → Rhodes | £350each |
| Manchester → Rhodes | £350each |
| Manchester → Corfu | £350each |
| Manchester → Heraklion | £350each |
| Gatwick → Salonika | £350each |
| Manchester → Athens | £350each |
| Stansted → Athens | £350each |
| Birmingham → Rhodes | £350each |
| Stansted → Rhodes | £350each |
| Manchester → Kos | £350each |
| Luton → Athens | £350each |
All 15 tracked UK ↔ Greece 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 Greece get delayed a lot?
Not especially. They're about average for the 71 countries the UK flies to most, with 0.5% of flights landing 3 or more hours late.
That works out at about 330 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 Greece it's €400 rather than £350, because departures from there fall under the EU version of the rules.
When is it worst?
June 2026, when flights between the UK and Greece ran an average of 29 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Greece
In the last 12 months, 66,061 flights operated between the UK and Greece: 57.4% ran within 15 minutes of schedule, and 0.5% were 3 or more hours late, roughly 330 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: 57.4% ran on time against 51.2% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 27.4 to 22.7 minutes.
Flights (12mo)
66,061
On time
57.4%
▲ 6.2pts vs last year
Avg delay
22.7 min
▼ 4.7 min vs last year
3 hours or more late
0.5%
Cancelled
0.3%
Greece, month by month
Worst month: June 2026, averaging 29 minutes.
Busiest routes between the UK and Greece
| UK airport | Destination | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|---|
| Heathrow | Athens | £350each |
| Gatwick | Athens | £350each |
| Gatwick | Corfu | £350each |
| Gatwick | Heraklion | £350each |
| Gatwick | Rhodes | £350each |
| Manchester | Rhodes | £350each |
| Manchester | Corfu | £350each |
| Manchester | Heraklion | £350each |
| Gatwick | Salonika | £350each |
| Manchester | Athens | £350each |
| Stansted | Athens | £350each |
| Birmingham | Rhodes | £350each |
| Stansted | Rhodes | £350each |
| Manchester | Kos | £350each |
| Luton | Athens | £350each |
Where you fly from
UK airports flying to Greece
| Airport | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|
| Gatwick | 0.7% | 57.2% |
| Heathrow | 0.3% | 74.6% |
| Manchester | 0.5% | 42.9% |
| Stansted | 0.5% | 63.9% |
| Birmingham | 0.5% | 48.5% |
| Bristol | 0.6% | 48.9% |
| Luton | 0.5% | 58.7% |
| East Midlands International | 0.2% | 58.2% |
| Newcastle | 0.4% | 57.8% |
| Edinburgh | 0.6% | 56.4% |
| Leeds Bradford | 0.7% | 62.1% |
| Glasgow | 0.4% | 56.6% |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | 0.5% | 72.3% |
| Bournemouth | 0.4% | 45.8% |
| Belfast International | 0.8% | 65.5% |
| Cardiff Wales | 1.4% | 43.4% |
| Exeter | 0.3% | 60.7% |
| London City | <0.5% | 62.5% |
| Aberdeen | <0.5% | 13.0% |
| Teesside International Airport | <0.5% | 61.4% |
Who flies there
Airlines flying between the UK and Greece
| Airline | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|
| easyJet | 0.5% | 58.6% |
| Jet2.com | 0.5% | 51.6% |
| TUI Airways | 0.7% | 47.4% |
| British Airways | 0.6% | 69.7% |
| Ryanair | 0.4% | 58.2% |
| Aegean Airlines | 0.1% | 72.6% |
| Wizz Air | 0.4% | 62.0% |
| Sky Express | 0.4% | 70.5% |
| Enter Air | 0.4% | 55.3% |
| Corendon Airlines Europe | 0.9% | 51.9% |
| BA CityFlyer | <0.5% | 62.1% |
Your rights
Your rights on this corridor
Every flight leaving the UK for Greece is covered by UK law, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, landing in the UK from Greece, 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 Greece'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.
From our own tracking
Recent flights from Greece that ran late
Every arrival into the airports we sweep that departed Greece and ran 3 or more hours late, or was 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.
British Airways
Athens → London Heathrow Airport
6 Oct · 20:25
British Airways
Athens → London Heathrow Airport
5 Oct · 22:45
British Airways
Athens → London Heathrow Airport
4 Oct · 22:45
Corendon Europe
Heraklion → Manchester Airport
1 Oct · 11:25 → 16:40
easyJet
Kerkyra Island → Manchester Airport
29 Sept · 01:05 → 04:36
Ryanair
Kerkyra Island → East Midlands Airport
25 Sept · 16:25 → 20:15
Ryanair
Santorini Island → London Stansted Airport
25 Sept · 19:40 → 22:52
easyJet
Thessaloniki → London Gatwick Airport
24 Sept · 13:40 → 16:53
easyJet
Mykonos Island → Manchester Airport
24 Sept · 00:10
easyJet
Skiathos → Bristol Airport
23 Sept · 14:25 → 18:40
Jet2
Kerkyra Island → Manchester Airport
22 Sept · 15:35 → 19:51
easyJet
Kerkyra Island → London Luton Airport
22 Sept · 15:00 → 18:55
Yours in the list? Check it free and we'll tell you what the airline owes you.
Watch my flight
Flying soon? We'll watch your flight
If it lands 3 hours or more late we email you what you're owed.
Fly to Greece from
Airlines flying to Greece
See all countries · See all UK airports · See all airlines
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.