Delayed on Air India from Heathrow to Bangalore (Bengaluru)?
£520each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 638
- Landed on time
- 56.5%
- Distance apart
- 8,046 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Heathrow
£520each under UK law
Leaving Bangalore (Bengaluru)
£520each under UK law
Bangalore (Bengaluru) is outside the UK and EU, so coming back this only applies if a UK or EU airline operated the flight.
Heathrow to Bangalore (Bengaluru) is 8,046 km, which fixes the figure: £520 each leaving Heathrow, 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 India does on this route
Better or worse than the route itself?
Everyone flying Heathrow to Bangalore (Bengaluru) 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 India is 14.4 points worse than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 5.8 minutes longer.
Against its own network it is 12.9 points better than usual: Air India lands on time 43.6% of the time across all 5,855 of its UK flights a year, against 56.5% here.
In money terms: about 2 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.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 8,046 km, same £520.
Everything we hold on Heathrow to Bangalore (Bengaluru) · Air India 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.