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Delayed on Ryanair from Luton to Faro?

£350each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
520
Landed on time
76.2%
Distance apart
1,757 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Luton

£350each under UK law

Leaving Faro

€400each under EU law

Luton to Faro is 1,757 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 Ryanair does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Luton to Faro 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 Ryanair Everyone
Landed on time 76.2% 73.0%
Average delay 12.1 min 14.6 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.0% 0.2%

On this route Ryanair is 3.2 points better than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 2.5 minutes shorter.

Against its own network it is 5.1 points better than usual: Ryanair lands on time 71.1% of the time across all 348,181 of its UK flights a year, against 76.2% here.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 1,757 km, same £350.

Airline Landed on time
Jet2.com 82.1% easyJet 70.5%

Everything we hold on Luton to Faro · Ryanair 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.