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Delayed on Ryanair from Gatwick to Dublin?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
6,087
Landed on time
70.4%
Land 3 hrs or more late
30a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Gatwick

£220each under UK law

Leaving Dublin

€250each under EU law

Gatwick to Dublin is 485 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 Ryanair does on this route

Ryanair is the only airline we track on this route

Nobody else we hold data for flies Gatwick to Dublin, so these are the route's numbers as well as Ryanair's. The comparison worth making is against the rest of its own network, below.

On this route Ryanair
Landed on time 70.4%
Average delay 16.2 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.5%

Against its own network it is about the same as usual: Ryanair lands on time 71.1% of the time across all 348,181 of its UK flights a year, against 70.4% here.

In money terms: about 3 flights a month 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 Ryanair.

Everything we hold on Gatwick to Dublin · 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.