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Delayed on Aer Lingus from Heathrow to Shannon?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
2,062
Landed on time
74.4%
Distance apart
594 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Heathrow

£220each under UK law

Leaving Shannon

€250each under EU law

Heathrow to Shannon is 594 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 Aer Lingus does on this route

Aer Lingus is the only airline we track on this route

Nobody else we hold data for flies Heathrow to Shannon, so these are the route's numbers as well as Aer Lingus's. The comparison worth making is against the rest of its own network, below.

On this route Aer Lingus
Landed on time 74.4%
Average delay 12.5 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.1%

Against its own network it is about the same as usual: Aer Lingus lands on time 73.4% of the time across all 52,206 of its UK flights a year, against 74.4% here.

In money terms: about 2 flights 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.

Everything we hold on Heathrow to Shannon · Aer Lingus 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.