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Delayed on Scandinavian Airlines Ireland from Heathrow to Copenhagen?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
940
Landed on time
81.1%
Distance apart
979 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Heathrow

£220each under UK law

Leaving Copenhagen

€250each under EU law

Heathrow to Copenhagen is 979 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 Scandinavian Airlines Ireland does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Heathrow to Copenhagen 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 Scandinavian Everyone
Landed on time 81.1% 82.0%
Average delay 9.1 min 8.8 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.0% 0.1%

Against its own network it is 2.5 points worse than usual: Scandinavian Airlines Ireland lands on time 83.6% of the time across all 2,114 of its UK flights a year, against 81.1% here.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 979 km, same £220.

Everything we hold on Heathrow to Copenhagen · Scandinavian Airlines Ireland 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.