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Delayed on Jet2.com from Manchester to Arrecife?

£350each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
1,002
Landed on time
55.7%
Distance apart
2,866 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Manchester

£350each under UK law

Leaving Arrecife

€400each under EU law

Manchester to Arrecife is 2,866 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 Jet2.com does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Manchester to Arrecife 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 Jet2.com Everyone
Landed on time 55.7% 60.3%
Average delay 25 min 20.5 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.3% 0.2%

On this route Jet2.com is 4.6 points worse than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 4.5 minutes longer.

Against its own network it is 11 points worse than usual: Jet2.com lands on time 66.7% of the time across all 125,825 of its UK flights a year, against 55.7% here.

In money terms: about 3 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 330. Everyone on board one of those is owed £350 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 2,866 km, same £350.

Everything we hold on Manchester to Arrecife · Jet2.com 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.