Delayed on Delta Air Lines from Heathrow to Atlanta?
£520each if you land 4 hours or more late (£260 each at 3 to 4 hours)
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- Flights a year
- 2,170
- Landed on time
- 81.4%
- Land 3 hours or more late
- 11 a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Heathrow
£520each under UK law
Leaving Atlanta
Not covered on Delta Air Lines: Atlanta is outside the UK and EU, and Delta Air Lines is not a UK or EU airline.
Heathrow to Atlanta is 6,761 km, which fixes the figure: £520 each leaving Heathrow, but nothing coming back, because Delta Air Lines is not a UK or EU airline. It is per person, so four of you is £2,080.
How Delta Air Lines does on this route
Better or worse than the route itself?
Everyone flying Heathrow to Atlanta 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.
Delta Air Lines flies 60% of this route, so the right-hand column is mostly its own flights being averaged back at it. The comparison that means something here is against the rest of its network.
Against its own network it is 1.7 points better than usual: Delta Air Lines lands on time 79.7% of the time across all 8,381 of its UK flights a year, against 81.4% here.
In money terms: about 11 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 at least £260 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for Delta Air Lines.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 6,761 km, same £520 each.
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Delta Air Lines flights between Heathrow and Atlanta
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Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority punctuality statistics, August 2025 to July 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.