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Delayed on easyJet from Luton to Alicante?

£350each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
1,467
Landed on time
75.6%
Distance apart
1,511 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Luton

£350each under UK law

Leaving Alicante

€400each under EU law

Luton to Alicante is 1,511 km, which fixes the figure: £350 each leaving Luton, 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 easyJet does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Luton 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.

On this route easyJet Everyone
Landed on time 75.6% 71.0%
Average delay 14.8 min 17.6 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.6% 0.7%

On this route easyJet is 4.6 points better than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 2.8 minutes shorter.

Against its own network it is 3.7 points better than usual: easyJet lands on time 71.9% of the time across all 398,684 of its UK flights a year, against 75.6% here.

In money terms: about 9 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 170. Everyone on board one of those is owed £350 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 1,511 km, same £350.

Everything we hold on Luton to Alicante · easyJet 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.