How much compensation for a delayed UK to Hungary flight?
£220 or £350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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Flights between the UK and Hungary are better than most of the 71 countries the UK flies to most for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 13,708
- Routes tracked
- 15
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 55a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
£220 or £350each if you land 3 hours or more late
Hungary isn't one distance from the UK, so what a 3-hour-plus delay pays depends on the route. Find your route below, or check your flight for an exact answer.
| Route | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|
| Stansted → Budapest | £220each |
| Heathrow → Budapest | £220each |
| Luton → Budapest | £220each |
| Gatwick → Budapest | £220each |
| Manchester → Budapest | £350each |
| Edinburgh → Budapest | £350each |
| Birmingham → Budapest | £350each |
| Bristol → Budapest | £350each |
| Luton → Debrecen | £350each |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) → Budapest | £350each |
| Newcastle → Budapest | £350each |
| East Midlands International → Budapest | £350each |
| Belfast International → Budapest | £350each |
| Leeds Bradford → Budapest | £350each |
| Glasgow → Budapest | £350each |
All 15 tracked UK ↔ Hungary routes, sorted by yearly flight volume. Figures are each; the EU version of the law pays €250 or €400 for the same two bands.
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 Hungary 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 55 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 Hungary it's €250 or €400 rather than £220 or £350, because departures from there fall under the EU version of the rules.
When is it worst?
July 2025, when flights between the UK and Hungary ran an average of 21.7 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Hungary
In the last 12 months, 13,708 flights operated between the UK and Hungary: 75.1% ran within 15 minutes of schedule, and 0.4% were 3 or more hours late, roughly 55 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: 75.1% ran on time against 70.0% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 18.6 to 14.1 minutes.
Flights (12mo)
13,708
On time
75.1%
▲ 5.1pts vs last year
Avg delay
14.1 min
▼ 4.5 min vs last year
3 hours or more late
0.4%
Cancelled
0.3%
Hungary, month by month
Worst month: July 2025, averaging 21.7 minutes.
Busiest routes between the UK and Hungary
| UK airport | Destination | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|---|
| Stansted | Budapest | £220each |
| Heathrow | Budapest | £220each |
| Luton | Budapest | £220each |
| Gatwick | Budapest | £220each |
| Manchester | Budapest | £350each |
| Edinburgh | Budapest | £350each |
| Birmingham | Budapest | £350each |
| Bristol | Budapest | £350each |
| Luton | Debrecen | £350each |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | Budapest | £350each |
| Newcastle | Budapest | £350each |
| East Midlands International | Budapest | £350each |
| Belfast International | Budapest | £350each |
| Leeds Bradford | Budapest | £350each |
| Glasgow | Budapest | £350each |
Where you fly from
UK airports flying to Hungary
| Airport | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|
| Stansted | 0.3% | 75.3% |
| Heathrow | 0.3% | 79.4% |
| Luton | 0.4% | 76.0% |
| Gatwick | 0.5% | 70.8% |
| Manchester | 0.1% | 67.4% |
| Edinburgh | 0.3% | 74.1% |
| Birmingham | 1.1% | 68.6% |
| Bristol | 0.3% | 73.2% |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | <0.5% | 88.0% |
| Newcastle | 0.4% | 85.6% |
| East Midlands International | 0.9% | 89.6% |
| Belfast International | 1.1% | 73.7% |
| Leeds Bradford | 0.7% | 75.7% |
| Glasgow | 1.0% | 65.6% |
Who flies there
Airlines flying between the UK and Hungary
| Airline | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|
| Ryanair | 0.3% | 75.7% |
| Wizz Air | 0.6% | 73.8% |
| British Airways | 0.3% | 79.4% |
| Jet2.com | 0.7% | 66.0% |
| easyJet | <0.5% | 76.8% |
| TUI Airways | <0.5% | 60.3% |
Your rights
Your rights on this corridor
Every flight leaving the UK for Hungary is covered by UK law, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, landing in the UK from Hungary, 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 Hungary'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 Hungary that ran late
Every arrival into the airports we sweep that departed Hungary 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
Budapest → London Heathrow Airport
5 Oct · 13:45
British Airways
Budapest → London Heathrow Airport
4 Oct · 09:15 → 12:27
British Airways
Budapest → London Heathrow Airport
4 Oct · 16:00
British Airways
Budapest → London Heathrow Airport
9 Sept · 09:50
British Airways
Budapest → London Heathrow Airport
9 Sept · 13:30
British Airways
Budapest → London Heathrow Airport
9 Sept · 16:35
Ryanair
Budapest → London Stansted Airport
31 Aug · 19:35 → 22:36
Jet2
Budapest → Manchester Airport
28 Aug · 14:30 → 18:09
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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.