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Delayed on easyJet from Gatwick to Barcelona?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
2,715
Landed on time
73.4%
Land 3 hrs or more late
14a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Gatwick

£220each under UK law

Leaving Barcelona

€250each under EU law

Gatwick to Barcelona is 1,109 km, which fixes the figure: £220 each leaving Gatwick, and €250 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 £880.

How easyJet does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Gatwick to Barcelona 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 easyJet Everyone
Landed on time 73.4% 71.7%
Average delay 14.9 min 15.7 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.5% 0.6%

On this route easyJet is 1.7 points better than the other airlines flying it.

Against its own network it is 1.5 points better than usual: easyJet lands on time 71.9% of the time across all 398,684 of its UK flights a year, against 73.4% here.

In money terms: about 14 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 200. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for easyJet.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 1,109 km, same £220.

Everything we hold on Gatwick to Barcelona · easyJet 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.