How much compensation for a delayed UK to Iceland flight?
£220 or £350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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Flights between the UK and Iceland are about average for the 71 countries the UK flies to most for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 7,139
- Routes tracked
- 11
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 57a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
£220 or £350each if you land 3 hours or more late
Iceland 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 |
|---|---|
| Heathrow → Keflavik | £350each |
| Manchester → Keflavik | £350each |
| Gatwick → Keflavik | £350each |
| Glasgow → Keflavik | £220each |
| Edinburgh → Keflavik | £220each |
| Luton → Keflavik | £350each |
| Birmingham → Keflavik | £350each |
| Stansted → Keflavik | £350each |
| Bristol → Keflavik | £350each |
| Gatwick → Akureyri | £350each |
| Manchester → Akureyri | £350each |
All 11 tracked UK ↔ Iceland 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 Iceland get delayed a lot?
Not especially. They're about average for the 71 countries the UK flies to most, with 0.8% of flights landing 3 or more hours late.
That works out at about 57 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
March 2026, when flights between the UK and Iceland ran an average of 18.2 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Iceland
In the last 12 months, 7,139 flights operated between the UK and Iceland: 81.5% ran within 15 minutes of schedule, and 0.8% were 3 or more hours late, roughly 57 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: 81.5% ran on time against 81.1% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 11.6 to 11.5 minutes.
Flights (12mo)
7,139
On time
81.5%
▲ 0.4pts vs last year
Avg delay
11.5 min
▼ 0.1 min vs last year
3 hours or more late
0.8%
Cancelled
1.5%
Iceland, month by month
Worst month: March 2026, averaging 18.2 minutes.
Busiest routes between the UK and Iceland
| UK airport | Destination | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|---|
| Heathrow | Keflavik | £350each |
| Manchester | Keflavik | £350each |
| Gatwick | Keflavik | £350each |
| Glasgow | Keflavik | £220each |
| Edinburgh | Keflavik | £220each |
| Luton | Keflavik | £350each |
| Birmingham | Keflavik | £350each |
| Stansted | Keflavik | £350each |
| Bristol | Keflavik | £350each |
| Gatwick | Akureyri | £350each |
| Manchester | Akureyri | £350each |
Where you fly from
UK airports flying to Iceland
| Airport | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|
| Heathrow | 0.6% | 85.1% |
| Gatwick | 0.4% | 77.6% |
| Manchester | 1.4% | 78.0% |
| Glasgow | 0.4% | 80.2% |
| Edinburgh | 1.2% | 83.3% |
| Luton | 1.2% | 81.9% |
| Birmingham | 1.2% | 86.6% |
| Stansted | <0.5% | 85.1% |
| Bristol | 1.6% | 83.7% |
Who flies there
Airlines flying between the UK and Iceland
| Airline | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|
| Icelandair | 0.6% | 82.1% |
| easyJet | 1.6% | 79.0% |
| British Airways | 0.3% | 85.2% |
| Jet2.com | 0.6% | 83.4% |
| Fly Play Hf | <0.5% | 83.8% |
| TUI Airways | <0.5% | 75.0% |
Your rights
Your rights on this corridor
Every flight leaving the UK for Iceland is covered by UK law, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, landing in the UK from Iceland, 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 Iceland'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.