Delayed on Ryanair from Manchester to Alicante?
£350each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 2,345
- Landed on time
- 66.2%
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 14a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Manchester
£350each under UK law
Leaving Alicante
€400each under EU law
Manchester to Alicante is 1,681 km, which fixes the figure: £350 each leaving Manchester, 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 Manchester 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 Ryanair is 4.6 points better than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 2.2 minutes shorter.
Against its own network it is 4.9 points worse than usual: Ryanair lands on time 71.1% of the time across all 348,181 of its UK flights a year, against 66.2% here.
In money terms: about 14 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 Ryanair.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 1,681 km, same £350.
Everything we hold on Manchester to Alicante · 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.