Delayed on Saudi Arabian Airlines from Heathrow to Riyadh?
£520each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 2,014
- Landed on time
- 71.4%
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 28a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Heathrow
£520each under UK law
Leaving Riyadh
£520each under UK law
Riyadh is outside the UK and EU, so coming back this only applies if a UK or EU airline operated the flight.
Heathrow to Riyadh is 4,940 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 Saudi Arabian Airlines does on this route
Better or worse than the route itself?
Everyone flying Heathrow to Riyadh 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 Saudi Arabian Airlines is 3.9 points worse than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 3.1 minutes longer.
Against its own network it is about the same as usual: Saudi Arabian Airlines lands on time 71.0% of the time across all 5,008 of its UK flights a year, against 71.4% here.
In money terms: about 2 flights a month on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 70. Everyone on board one of those is owed £520 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for Saudi Arabian Airlines.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 4,940 km, same £520.
Everything we hold on Heathrow to Riyadh · Saudi Arabian Airlines 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.