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Delayed on easyJet from Gatwick to Bordeaux?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
1,359
Landed on time
69.2%
Land 3 hrs or more late
10a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Gatwick

£220each under UK law

Leaving Bordeaux

€250each under EU law

Gatwick to Bordeaux is 704 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 Bordeaux 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 69.2% 69.8%
Average delay 16.1 min 16.6 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.7% 0.6%

easyJet flies 64% of this route, so the right-hand column is mostly its own flights being averaged back at it. The comparison that means something here is against the rest of its network.

Against its own network it is 2.7 points worse than usual: easyJet lands on time 71.9% of the time across all 398,684 of its UK flights a year, against 69.2% here.

In money terms: about 10 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 140. 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 704 km, same £220.

Airline Landed on time
British Airways 70.9%

Everything we hold on Gatwick to Bordeaux · 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.