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Delayed on BA CityFlyer from London City to Amsterdam?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
3,075
Landed on time
77.0%
Land 3 hrs or more late
12a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving London City

£220each under UK law

Leaving Amsterdam

€250each under EU law

London City to Amsterdam is 335 km, which fixes the figure: £220 each leaving London City, 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 BA CityFlyer does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying London City to Amsterdam 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 BA CityFlyer Everyone
Landed on time 77.0% 76.0%
Average delay 13.4 min 12 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.4% 0.2%

Against its own network it is 1.7 points better than usual: BA CityFlyer lands on time 75.3% of the time across all 38,661 of its UK flights a year, against 77.0% here.

In money terms: about 12 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 250. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for BA CityFlyer.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 335 km, same £220.

Airline Landed on time
KLM 75.2%

Everything we hold on London City to Amsterdam · BA CityFlyer 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.