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Delayed on British Airways from Heathrow to Delhi?

£520each if you land 4 hours or more late (£260 each at 3 to 4 hours)

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Flights a year
1,507
Landed on time
78.4%
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, but British Airways is a UK airline, so its flights back are covered.

Heathrow to Delhi is 6,731 km, which fixes the figure: £520 each leaving Heathrow, and the same £520 each coming back on British Airways. 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 78.4% 60.5%
Average delay 11.1 min 24.4 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.4% 1.2%

On this route British Airways is 17.9 points better than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 13.3 minutes shorter.

Against its own network it is 1.5 points better than usual: British Airways lands on time 76.9% of the time across all 308,727 of its UK flights a year, against 78.4% here.

In money terms: about 6 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 250. Everyone on board one of those is owed at least £260 each.

Other airlines on this route

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

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British Airways flights between Heathrow and Delhi

British Airways flights we saw on this route in the last week. Tap yours, add your date, and we'll check it.

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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.