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Delayed on Virgin Atlantic 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
724
Landed on time
79.2%
Distance apart
6,761 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Heathrow

£520each under UK law

Leaving Atlanta

£520each under UK law

Atlanta is outside the UK and EU, but Virgin Atlantic is a UK airline, so its flights back are covered.

Heathrow to Atlanta is 6,761 km, which fixes the figure: £520 each leaving Heathrow, and the same £520 each coming back on Virgin Atlantic. It is per person, so four of you is £2,080.

How Virgin Atlantic 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.

On this route Virgin Everyone
Landed on time 79.2% 79.1%
Average delay 10.3 min 12 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.1% 0.4%

Against its own network it is 2.1 points worse than usual: Virgin Atlantic lands on time 81.3% of the time across all 25,257 of its UK flights a year, against 79.2% here.

In money terms: about 1 flight a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 1,000. Everyone on board one of those is owed at least £260 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 6,761 km, same £520 each.

Airline Landed on time
Delta Air Lines 81.4% British Airways 72.3%

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Virgin Atlantic 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.