Delayed on Iberia Express from Gatwick to Madrid?
£220each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 1,288
- Landed on time
- 87.6%
- Distance apart
- 1,213 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Gatwick
£220each under UK law
Leaving Madrid
€250each under EU law
Gatwick to Madrid is 1,213 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 Iberia Express does on this route
Better or worse than the route itself?
Everyone flying Gatwick to Madrid 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 Iberia Express is 5.2 points better than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 2.6 minutes shorter.
Against its own network it is 5.9 points better than usual: Iberia Express lands on time 81.7% of the time across all 1,840 of its UK flights a year, against 87.6% here.
In money terms: about 1 flight a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 1,000. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 1,213 km, same £220.
Everything we hold on Gatwick to Madrid · Iberia Express across every UK airport
Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority punctuality statistics, August 2025 to July 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.