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Delayed on Lufthansa from Manchester to Frankfurt Main?

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Flights a year
2,593
Landed on time
66.5%
Distance apart
832 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Manchester

£220each under UK law

Leaving Frankfurt Main

€250each under EU law

Manchester to Frankfurt Main is 832 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 Lufthansa does on this route

Lufthansa is the only airline we track on this route

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

On this route Lufthansa
Landed on time 66.5%
Average delay 14.2 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.1%

Against its own network it is 3.7 points worse than usual: Lufthansa lands on time 70.2% of the time across all 24,888 of its UK flights a year, against 66.5% here.

In money terms: about 3 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 1,000. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each.

Everything we hold on Manchester to Frankfurt Main · Lufthansa 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.