What do you get for a Belfast International flight delay or cancellation?
Belfast International flight delay compensation pays £220, £350 or £520 per passenger under UK261, depending on distance. You qualify when you land three or more hours late at your final destination. Every flight out of Belfast International is a UK departure, so the airline's nationality and your fare make no difference.
Belfast International is Northern Ireland's largest airport, dominated by easyJet and holiday routes to Spain, Portugal and Turkey.
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Does UK261 cover every flight from Belfast International?
Every flight out of Belfast International is a UK departure, so UK261 covers it whatever the airline's nationality. A Spanish or Irish airline taking off here counts just as a British one does.
UK261 reaches a flight into Belfast International only when a UK, EU or EEA airline flies it. For this airport's traffic that is nearly always the case.
Distance fixes the sum, never the fare:
| Flight distance | UK261: leaving Belfast | EU261: the flight home from the EU |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 1,500 km | £220 | €250 |
| 1,500 to 3,500 km | £350 | €400 |
| Over 3,500 km | £520 | €600 |
Note the split on a European route. The outbound from here is a UK261 flight, paid in pounds. The flight home is an EU261 departure, paid in euros.
Is a cheap holiday flight from Belfast worth claiming on?
Yes. The figure is the same whatever you paid, and on the routes this airport flies it is usually well above the fare.
The airline owes it per passenger too. A family of four on a delayed holiday flight collects £880 between them at the lowest band.
What causes delays at Belfast International?
Low-cost flying runs on tight turnarounds, so a delay early in an aircraft's day often lasts to its last rotation. A late inbound aircraft is a familiar cause of a late departure.
Wind, low cloud and winter de-icing all feature, and European flow limits on busy weekends do the rest. Weather can be an extraordinary circumstance, but the airline has to prove it for your flight.
Technical faults, crews running out of hours and commercial cancellations of thin flights are the airline's own doing, so the money still stands.
How do you claim Belfast International flight delay compensation?
Start with the flight itself. Our free flight check reads the recorded departure and arrival times for your flight from Belfast International and tells you which band it falls in.
Your Belfast International compensation claim turns on two things: the arrival time, and the reason the airline gives.
For a late arrival, read the flight delay compensation guide. For a flight that never flew, read the cancellation compensation guide. It covers Belfast International cancellation compensation too. Has the airline said no? The case law summary sets out what the courts make of the usual excuses.
What you need to claim
- Your flight number and date
- The airports you flew between
- Roughly how late you arrived
- Your booking reference, if you still have it
No boarding pass? We can usually work from the flight number and date alone.