Delayed on easyJet from Gatwick to Lyon?
£220each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 1,686
- Landed on time
- 73.8%
- Distance apart
- 717 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Gatwick
£220each under UK law
Leaving Lyon
€250each under EU law
Gatwick to Lyon is 717 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 Lyon 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.
easyJet flies 84% 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 1.9 points better than usual: easyJet lands on time 71.9% of the time across all 398,684 of its UK flights a year, against 73.8% here.
In money terms: about 8 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.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 717 km, same £220.
Everything we hold on Gatwick to Lyon · 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.