Delayed on Swiss Airlines from Manchester to Zurich?
£220each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 1,726
- Landed on time
- 55.6%
- Distance apart
- 1,007 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Manchester
£220each under UK law
Leaving Zurich
£220each under UK law
Zurich is outside the UK and EU, so coming back this only applies if a UK or EU airline operated the flight.
Manchester to Zurich is 1,007 km, which fixes the figure: £220 each leaving Manchester, and the same £220 each coming back if a UK or EU airline operated the flight. It is per person, so four of you is £880.
How Swiss Airlines does on this route
Better or worse than the route itself?
Everyone flying Manchester to Zurich 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.
Swiss Airlines flies 80% of this route, so the right-hand column is mostly its own flights being averaged back at it. The comparison that means something here is against the rest of its network.
Against its own network it is 11.1 points worse than usual: Swiss Airlines lands on time 66.7% of the time across all 14,502 of its UK flights a year, against 55.6% here.
In money terms: about 2 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.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 1,007 km, same £220.
Everything we hold on Manchester to Zurich · Swiss Airlines 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.