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Delayed on Brussels Airlines from Heathrow to Brussels?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
2,218
Landed on time
60.8%
Distance apart
350 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Heathrow

£220each under UK law

Leaving Brussels

€250each under EU law

Heathrow to Brussels is 350 km, which fixes the figure: £220 each leaving Heathrow, and €250 each coming back the other way, because that leg departs under the EU's version of the rules. It is per person, so four of you is £880.

How Brussels Airlines does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Heathrow to Brussels 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 Brussels Everyone
Landed on time 60.8% 67.9%
Average delay 18.9 min 14.9 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.3% 0.2%

On this route Brussels Airlines is 7.1 points worse than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 4 minutes longer.

Against its own network it is about the same as usual: Brussels Airlines lands on time 61.8% of the time across all 4,096 of its UK flights a year, against 60.8% here.

In money terms: about 7 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 £220 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 350 km, same £220.

Airline Landed on time
British Airways 74.1%

Everything we hold on Heathrow to Brussels · Brussels Airlines 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.