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Delayed on Aer Lingus from Liverpool (John Lennon) to Dublin?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
1,269
Landed on time
76.4%
Land 3 hrs or more late
15a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Liverpool (John Lennon)

£220each under UK law

Leaving Dublin

€250each under EU law

Liverpool (John Lennon) to Dublin is 227 km, which fixes the figure: £220 each leaving Liverpool (John Lennon), 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

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Liverpool (John Lennon) to Dublin 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 Aer Lingus Everyone
Landed on time 76.4% 80.3%
Average delay 17.1 min 11.8 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 1.2% 0.7%

On this route Aer Lingus is 3.9 points worse than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 5.3 minutes longer.

Against its own network it is 3 points better than usual: Aer Lingus lands on time 73.4% of the time across all 52,206 of its UK flights a year, against 76.4% here.

In money terms: about 15 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 85. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for Aer Lingus.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 227 km, same £220.

Airline Landed on time
Ryanair 81.8%

Everything we hold on Liverpool (John Lennon) to Dublin · 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.