Delayed on Vueling Airlines from Heathrow to Barcelona?
£220each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 1,438
- Landed on time
- 75.6%
- Distance apart
- 1,148 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Heathrow
£220each under UK law
Leaving Barcelona
€250each under EU law
Heathrow to Barcelona is 1,148 km, which fixes the figure: £220 each leaving Heathrow, 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 Heathrow to Barcelona 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 Airlines is 1.6 points worse than the other airlines flying it.
Against its own network it is about the same as usual: Vueling Airlines lands on time 76.5% of the time across all 21,926 of its UK flights a year, against 75.6% here.
In money terms: about 3 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 500. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 1,148 km, same £220.
Everything we hold on Heathrow to Barcelona · Vueling Airlines 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.