How much compensation for a delayed UK to Slovakia flight?
£220 or £350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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Flights between the UK and Slovakia are about average for the 71 countries the UK flies to most for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 3,648
- Routes tracked
- 9
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 18a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
£220 or £350each if you land 3 hours or more late
Slovakia 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 → Bratislava | £220each |
| Luton → Bratislava | £220each |
| Stansted → Kosice | £350each |
| Luton → Kosice | £350each |
| Manchester → Bratislava | £220each |
| Edinburgh → Bratislava | £350each |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) → Kosice | £350each |
| Luton → Tatry-Poprad | £220each |
| Leeds Bradford → Bratislava | £220each |
All 9 tracked UK ↔ Slovakia 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 Slovakia 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 18 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 Slovakia 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?
June 2026, when flights between the UK and Slovakia ran an average of 23.3 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Slovakia
In the last 12 months, 3,648 flights operated between the UK and Slovakia: 81.0% ran within 15 minutes of schedule, and 0.5% were 3 or more hours late, roughly 18 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: 81.0% ran on time against 78.2% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 12.8 to 11 minutes.
Flights (12mo)
3,648
On time
81.0%
▲ 2.8pts vs last year
Avg delay
11 min
▼ 1.8 min vs last year
3 hours or more late
0.5%
Cancelled
0.3%
Slovakia, month by month
Worst month: June 2026, averaging 23.3 minutes.
Busiest routes between the UK and Slovakia
| UK airport | Destination | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|---|
| Stansted | Bratislava | £220each |
| Luton | Bratislava | £220each |
| Stansted | Kosice | £350each |
| Luton | Kosice | £350each |
| Manchester | Bratislava | £220each |
| Edinburgh | Bratislava | £350each |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | Kosice | £350each |
| Luton | Tatry-Poprad | £220each |
| Leeds Bradford | Bratislava | £220each |
Where you fly from
UK airports flying to Slovakia
| Airport | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|
| Stansted | 0.4% | 72.7% |
| Luton | 0.6% | 89.3% |
| Manchester | 0.5% | 77.9% |
| Edinburgh | <0.5% | 77.0% |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | 1.6% | 86.7% |
| Leeds Bradford | <0.5% | 93.4% |
Who flies there
Airlines flying between the UK and Slovakia
Your rights
Your rights on this corridor
Every flight leaving the UK for Slovakia is covered by UK law, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, landing in the UK from Slovakia, 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 Slovakia'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.