Flights between the UK and Ghana: what a delay is worth
Every route the CAA tracks between the UK and Ghana falls in the same distance band (Over 3,500 km), so a delay of 3 hours or more pays a flat £520 per passenger under UK261 if the flight left the UK (€600 under EU261 if it left Ghana instead and the airline was a UK or EU carrier). Find your route below.
| Route | 3h+ delay pays |
|---|---|
| Heathrow → Accra | £520 |
| Gatwick → Accra | £520 |
All 2 tracked UK ↔ Ghana routes, sorted by yearly flight volume. Figures are per passenger under UK261; EU261 pays €600 for the same band.
In the last 12 months, 1,071 flights operated between the UK and Ghana: 59.8% ran within 15 minutes of schedule, and 1.4% were 3 or more hours late, roughly 15 flights' worth of eligible passengers in a year. The CAA's figures don't separate arrivals from departures, so this covers the route both ways.
Punctuality is up on last year: 59.8% of flights ran on time against 58.7% in the twelve months before, and the average delay rose from 26.2 to 27.8 minutes.
Flights (12mo)
1,071
On time
59.8%
▲ 1.1pts vs last year
Avg delay
27.8 min
▲ 1.6 min vs last year
3h+ delayed
1.4%
Cancelled
0.6%
Ghana, month by month
Worst month: August 2025, averaging 94.2 minutes.
Busiest routes between the UK and Ghana
UK airports flying to Ghana
Airlines flying between the UK and Ghana
| Airline | 3h+ % | On-time % |
|---|---|---|
| British Airways | 1.4% | 59.8% |
Your rights on this route
Every flight leaving the UK for Ghana is covered by UK261, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, landing in the UK from Ghana, are covered too if a UK or EU airline operated them; a return flight on a non-UK, non-EU carrier falls outside UK261, though the Montreal Convention and Ghana's own rules may still give you a claim. See the full breakdown on the 3-hour rule. Cancelled instead of delayed? Broadly the same amounts apply under different conditions. See cancelled flight compensation.
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Airlines flying to Ghana
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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.