Delayed on Air China from Gatwick to Shanghai (Pu Dong)?
£520each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 764
- Landed on time
- 83.4%
- Distance apart
- 9,252 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Gatwick
£520each under UK law
Leaving Shanghai (Pu Dong)
£520each under UK law
Shanghai (Pu Dong) is outside the UK and EU, so coming back this only applies if a UK or EU airline operated the flight.
Gatwick to Shanghai (Pu Dong) is 9,252 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 Air China does on this route
Better or worse than the route itself?
Everyone flying Gatwick to Shanghai (Pu Dong) hits the same airspace and the same two airports, so the honest question is not whether the route is busy, it is whether this airline handles it better or worse than the others on it.
On this route Air China is 2.2 points worse than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 2 minutes longer.
Against its own network it is about the same as usual: Air China lands on time 83.1% of the time across all 3,022 of its UK flights a year, against 83.4% here.
In money terms: about 4 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 200. Everyone on board one of those is owed £520 each.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 9,252 km, same £520.
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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.