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Delayed on British Airways from Heathrow to Milan (Linate)?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
4,888
Landed on time
77.2%
Land 3 hrs or more late
15a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Heathrow

£220each under UK law

Leaving Milan (Linate)

€250each under EU law

Heathrow to Milan (Linate) is 981 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 British Airways does on this route

British Airways is the only airline we track on this route

Nobody else we hold data for flies Heathrow to Milan (Linate), so these are the route's numbers as well as British Airways's. The comparison worth making is against the rest of its own network, below.

On this route British
Landed on time 77.2%
Average delay 11.9 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.3%

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 77.2% here.

In money terms: about 15 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 £220 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for British Airways.

Everything we hold on Heathrow to Milan (Linate) · 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.