Delayed on Emirates from Gatwick to Dubai?
£520each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 2,070
- Landed on time
- 71.2%
- Distance apart
- 5,474 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Gatwick
£520each under UK law
Leaving Dubai
£520each under UK law
Dubai is outside the UK and EU, so coming back this only applies if a UK or EU airline operated the flight.
Gatwick to Dubai is 5,474 km, which fixes the figure: £520 each leaving Gatwick, and the same £520 each coming back if a UK or EU airline operated the flight. It is per person, so four of you is £2,080.
How Emirates does on this route
Emirates is the only airline we track on this route
Nobody else we hold data for flies Gatwick to Dubai, so these are the route's numbers as well as Emirates's. The comparison worth making is against the rest of its own network, below.
Against its own network it is about the same as usual: Emirates lands on time 69.8% of the time across all 12,944 of its UK flights a year, against 71.2% here.
In money terms: about 6 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 330. Everyone on board one of those is owed £520 each.
Everything we hold on Gatwick to Dubai · Emirates 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.