Delayed on Virgin Atlantic 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
- 1,447
- Landed on time
- 83.4%
- 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 Virgin Atlantic 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 Virgin Atlantic. It is per person, so four of you is £2,080.
How Virgin Atlantic 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 Virgin Atlantic is 22.9 points better than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 15.4 minutes shorter.
Against its own network it is 2.1 points better than usual: Virgin Atlantic lands on time 81.3% of the time across all 25,257 of its UK flights a year, against 83.4% here.
In money terms: about 4 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 at least £260 each.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 6,731 km, same £520 each.
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Virgin Atlantic flights between Heathrow and Delhi
Virgin Atlantic 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.