Delayed on SAS from Manchester to Copenhagen?
£220each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 1,263
- Landed on time
- 71.9%
- Distance apart
- 995 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Manchester
£220each under UK law
Leaving Copenhagen
€250each under EU law
Manchester to Copenhagen is 995 km, which fixes the figure: £220 each leaving Manchester, and €250 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 £880.
How SAS does on this route
Better or worse than the route itself?
Everyone flying Manchester to Copenhagen 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 SAS is 6.8 points better than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 5.5 minutes shorter.
Against its own network it is 10 points worse than usual: SAS lands on time 81.9% of the time across all 12,861 of its UK flights a year, against 71.9% here.
In money terms: about 3 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 500. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 995 km, same £220.
Everything we hold on Manchester to Copenhagen · SAS 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.