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Delayed on easyJet from Gatwick to Copenhagen?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
794
Landed on time
77.6%
Distance apart
984 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Gatwick

£220each under UK law

Leaving Copenhagen

€250each under EU law

Gatwick to Copenhagen is 984 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 Copenhagen 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 77.6% 79.0%
Average delay 10.6 min 10.3 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.0% 0.1%

Against its own network it is 5.7 points better than usual: easyJet lands on time 71.9% of the time across all 398,684 of its UK flights a year, against 77.6% here.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 984 km, same £220.

Airline Landed on time
Norwegian 79.5%

Everything we hold on Gatwick to Copenhagen · 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.