Delayed on BA CityFlyer from London City to Frankfurt Main?
£220each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 905
- Landed on time
- 78.5%
- Distance apart
- 620 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving London City
£220each under UK law
Leaving Frankfurt Main
€250each under EU law
London City to Frankfurt Main is 620 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 Frankfurt Main 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 is 2.1 points better than the other airlines flying it.
Against its own network it is 3.2 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 78.5% here.
In money terms: about 6 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 140. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 620 km, same £220.
Everything we hold on London City to Frankfurt Main · 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.