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£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
4,900
Landed on time
77.4%
Distance apart
348 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Heathrow

£220each under UK law

Leaving Paris (Charles de Gaulle)

€250each under EU law

Heathrow to Paris (Charles de Gaulle) is 348 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

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Heathrow to Paris (Charles de Gaulle) 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 77.4% 76.4%
Average delay 10.7 min 11.6 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.1% 0.2%

Against its own network it is about the same as usual: British Airways lands on time 76.9% of the time across all 308,727 of its UK flights a year, against 77.4% here.

In money terms: about 5 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 1,000. Everyone on board one of those is owed £220 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 348 km, same £220 each.

Airline Landed on time
Air France 75.2%

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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.