Delayed on Wizz Air from Luton to Bucharest (Otopeni)?
£350each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 2,826
- Landed on time
- 70.2%
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 17a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Luton
£350each under UK law
Leaving Bucharest (Otopeni)
€400each under EU law
Luton to Bucharest (Otopeni) is 2,108 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 Wizz Air does on this route
Wizz Air is the only airline we track on this route
Nobody else we hold data for flies Luton to Bucharest (Otopeni), so these are the route's numbers as well as Wizz Air's. The comparison worth making is against the rest of its own network, below.
Against its own network it is 6.1 points worse than usual: Wizz Air lands on time 76.3% of the time across all 55,842 of its UK flights a year, against 70.2% here.
In money terms: about 17 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, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for Wizz Air.
Everything we hold on Luton to Bucharest (Otopeni) · Wizz Air 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.