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Delayed on British Airways from Heathrow to Delhi?

£520each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
1,489
Landed on time
77.6%
Distance apart
6,731 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Heathrow

£520each under UK law

Leaving Delhi

£520each under UK law

Delhi is outside the UK and EU, so coming back this only applies if a UK or EU airline operated the flight.

Heathrow to Delhi is 6,731 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 British Airways does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Heathrow to Delhi 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 British Everyone
Landed on time 77.6% 59.4%
Average delay 11.7 min 25.5 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.6% 1.3%

On this route British Airways is 18.2 points better than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 13.8 minutes shorter.

Against its own network it is about the same as usual: British Airways lands on time 76.4% of the time across all 309,084 of its UK flights a year, against 77.6% here.

In money terms: about 9 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 170. Everyone on board one of those is owed £520 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 6,731 km, same £520.

Everything we hold on Heathrow to Delhi · British Airways 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.