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Delayed on British Airways from Heathrow to Prague?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
3,435
Landed on time
79.5%
Land 3 hrs or more late
10a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Heathrow

£220each under UK law

Leaving Prague

€250each under EU law

Heathrow to Prague is 1,044 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 Prague, 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 79.5%
Average delay 10.8 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.3%

Against its own network it is 3.1 points better than usual: British Airways lands on time 76.4% of the time across all 309,084 of its UK flights a year, against 79.5% here.

In money terms: about 10 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 Prague · 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.