How much compensation for a delayed UK to Japan flight?
£520 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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Flights between the UK and Japan are about average for the 71 countries the UK flies to most for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 3,441
- Routes tracked
- 1
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 17a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
£520each if you land 3 hours or more late
Every route the CAA tracks between the UK and Japan falls in the same distance band (Over 3,500 km), so a delay of 3 hours or more pays a flat £520 each if the flight left the UK (€600 under EU261 if it left Japan instead and the airline was a UK or EU carrier). Find your route below.
| Route | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|
| Heathrow → Tokyo (Haneda) | £520each |
All 1 tracked UK ↔ Japan routes, sorted by yearly flight volume. Figures are each; the EU version of the law pays €600 for the same band.
The figure is payable only when the delay was within the airline's control. A technical fault, a crew shortage or a late inbound aircraft all count; genuinely extraordinary circumstances such as severe weather or an air traffic control restriction do not.
How bad is it
Do flights between the UK and Japan get delayed a lot?
Not especially. They're about average for the 71 countries the UK flies to most, with 0.5% of flights landing 3 or more hours late.
That works out at about 17 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.
When is it worst?
August 2025, when flights between the UK and Japan ran an average of 26.7 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Japan
In the last 12 months, 3,441 flights operated between the UK and Japan: 78.2% ran within 15 minutes of schedule, and 0.5% were 3 or more hours late, roughly 17 flights' worth of eligible passengers in a year. The CAA's figures don't separate arrivals from departures, so this covers the corridor both ways.
Flights are landing on time less often than last year: 78.2% ran on time against 79.1% in the twelve months before, and the average delay rose from 12.8 to 14.4 minutes.
Flights (12mo)
3,441
On time
78.2%
▼ 0.9pts vs last year
Avg delay
14.4 min
▲ 1.6 min vs last year
3 hours or more late
0.5%
Cancelled
0.8%
Japan, month by month
Worst month: August 2025, averaging 26.7 minutes.
Busiest routes between the UK and Japan
| UK airport | Destination | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|---|
| Heathrow | Tokyo (Haneda) | £520each |
Where you fly from
UK airports flying to Japan
| Airport | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|
| Heathrow | 0.5% | 78.3% |
Who flies there
Airlines flying between the UK and Japan
| Airline | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|
| Japan Airlines | 0.3% | 79.7% |
| British Airways | 0.7% | 74.6% |
| All Nippon Airways | 0.7% | 81.6% |
Your rights
Your rights on this corridor
Every flight leaving the UK for Japan is covered by UK law, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, landing in the UK from Japan, are covered too if a UK or EU airline operated them; a return flight on a non-UK, non-EU carrier falls outside it, though the Montreal Convention and Japan'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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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.