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Delayed on British Airways from Gatwick to Larnaca?

£350each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
605
Landed on time
71.5%
Land 3 hrs or more late
12a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Gatwick

£350each under UK law

Leaving Larnaca

€400each under EU law

Gatwick to Larnaca is 3,247 km, which fixes the figure: £350 each leaving Gatwick, 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 British Airways does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Gatwick to Larnaca 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 British Everyone
Landed on time 71.5% 60.8%
Average delay 19.6 min 20.7 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 2.0% 1.0%

On this route British Airways is 10.7 points better than the other airlines flying it.

Against its own network it is 4.9 points worse than usual: British Airways lands on time 76.4% of the time across all 309,084 of its UK flights a year, against 71.5% here.

In money terms: about 12 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 50. Everyone on board one of those is owed £350 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for British Airways.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 3,247 km, same £350.

Everything we hold on Gatwick to Larnaca · British Airways 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.