Delayed on Ryanair from Liverpool (John Lennon) to Alicante?
£350each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 1,100
- Landed on time
- 83.7%
- Distance apart
- 1,683 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Liverpool (John Lennon)
£350each under UK law
Leaving Alicante
€400each under EU law
Liverpool (John Lennon) to Alicante is 1,683 km, which fixes the figure: £350 each leaving Liverpool (John Lennon), and €400 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 £1,400.
How Ryanair does on this route
Better or worse than the route itself?
Everyone flying Liverpool (John Lennon) to Alicante 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.
Against its own network it is 12.6 points better than usual: Ryanair lands on time 71.1% of the time across all 348,181 of its UK flights a year, against 83.7% here.
In money terms: about 6 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 £350 each.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 1,683 km, same £350.
Everything we hold on Liverpool (John Lennon) to Alicante · Ryanair 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.