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Delayed on Cathay Pacific Airways from Heathrow to Hong Kong (Chek Lap Kok)?

£520each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
3,628
Landed on time
68.0%
Land 3 hrs or more late
29a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Heathrow

£520each under UK law

Leaving Hong Kong (Chek Lap Kok)

£520each under UK law

Hong Kong (Chek Lap Kok) is outside the UK and EU, so coming back this only applies if a UK or EU airline operated the flight.

Heathrow to Hong Kong (Chek Lap Kok) is 9,630 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 Cathay Pacific Airways does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Heathrow to Hong Kong (Chek Lap Kok) 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 Cathay Everyone
Landed on time 68.0% 69.7%
Average delay 19.1 min 18 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.8% 0.8%

Cathay Pacific Airways flies 84% of this route, so the right-hand column is mostly its own flights being averaged back at it. The comparison that means something here is against the rest of its network.

Against its own network it is about the same as usual: Cathay Pacific Airways lands on time 68.8% of the time across all 4,352 of its UK flights a year, against 68.0% here.

In money terms: about 2 flights a month on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 130. Everyone on board one of those is owed £520 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for Cathay Pacific Airways.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 9,630 km, same £520.

Airline Landed on time
British Airways 78.2%

Everything we hold on Heathrow to Hong Kong (Chek Lap Kok) · Cathay Pacific 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.