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£520each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
2,056
Landed on time
58.2%
Land 3 hrs or more late
19a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Manchester

£520each under UK law

Leaving Dubai

£520each under UK law

Dubai is outside the UK and EU, so coming back this only applies if a UK or EU airline operated the flight.

Manchester to Dubai is 5,656 km, which fixes the figure: £520 each leaving Manchester, and the same £520 each coming back if a UK or EU airline operated the flight. It is per person, so four of you is £2,080.

How Emirates does on this route

Emirates is the only airline we track on this route

Nobody else we hold data for flies Manchester to Dubai, so these are the route's numbers as well as Emirates's. The comparison worth making is against the rest of its own network, below.

On this route Emirates
Landed on time 58.2%
Average delay 20.2 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.9%

Against its own network it is 9.1 points worse than usual: Emirates lands on time 67.3% of the time across all 12,917 of its UK flights a year, against 58.2% here.

In money terms: about 19 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 110. Everyone on board one of those is owed £520 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for Emirates.

Everything we hold on Manchester to Dubai · Emirates across every UK airport

Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority punctuality statistics, August 2025 to July 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.