Newcastle flight delay and cancellation compensation

What are you owed for a Newcastle flight delay or cancellation?

Newcastle flight delay compensation pays £220, £350 or £520 per passenger under UK261, set by distance rather than the ticket price. You qualify when you land three or more hours late at your final destination. UK261 covers every departure from Newcastle, whoever flies it.

Newcastle serves the north-east of England, with European holiday routes, Dublin and Amsterdam connections, and a long-haul seasonal presence.

Which rules apply to flights at Newcastle Airport?

Every flight out of Newcastle 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 Newcastle 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 Newcastle	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 short European flight from Newcastle 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 goes wrong at Newcastle, and which causes pay?

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 Newcastle flight delay compensation?

Start with the flight itself. Our free flight check reads the recorded departure and arrival times for your flight from Newcastle and tells you which band it falls in.

Your Newcastle 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 Newcastle cancellation compensation too. Has the airline said no? The case law summary sets out what the courts make of the usual excuses.