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Delayed on Vueling Airlines from Gatwick to Valencia?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
581
Landed on time
81.3%
Distance apart
1,297 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Gatwick

£220each under UK law

Leaving Valencia

€250each under EU law

Gatwick to Valencia is 1,297 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 Vueling Airlines does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Gatwick to Valencia 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 Vueling Everyone
Landed on time 81.3% 76.0%
Average delay 11.5 min 13.9 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.7% 0.7%

On this route Vueling Airlines is 5.3 points better than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 2.4 minutes shorter.

Against its own network it is 6.6 points better than usual: Vueling Airlines lands on time 74.7% of the time across all 22,110 of its UK flights a year, against 81.3% here.

In money terms: about 4 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 140. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 1,297 km, same £220.

Airline Landed on time
easyJet 74.4% Wizz Air 70.1%

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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.