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Delayed on Ryanair from East Midlands International to Alicante?

£350each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
1,223
Landed on time
75.7%
Distance apart
1,619 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving East Midlands International

£350each under UK law

Leaving Alicante

€400each under EU law

East Midlands International to Alicante is 1,619 km, which fixes the figure: £350 each leaving East Midlands International, and €400 each coming back the other way, because that leg departs under the EU's version of the rules. It is per person, so four of you is £1,400.

How Ryanair does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying East Midlands International to Alicante hits the same airspace and the same two airports, so the honest question is not whether the route is busy, it is whether this airline handles it better or worse than the others on it.

On this route Ryanair Everyone
Landed on time 75.7% 78.6%
Average delay 13.9 min 13.1 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.3% 0.6%

On this route Ryanair is 2.9 points worse than the other airlines flying it.

Against its own network it is 4.6 points better than usual: Ryanair lands on time 71.1% of the time across all 348,181 of its UK flights a year, against 75.7% here.

In money terms: about 4 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 330. Everyone on board one of those is owed £350 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 1,619 km, same £350.

Everything we hold on East Midlands International to Alicante · Ryanair across every UK airport

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.