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Delayed on SAS from Heathrow to Stockholm (Arlanda)?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
2,690
Landed on time
86.1%
Distance apart
1,463 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Heathrow

£220each under UK law

Leaving Stockholm (Arlanda)

€250each under EU law

Heathrow to Stockholm (Arlanda) is 1,463 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 SAS does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Heathrow to Stockholm (Arlanda) 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 SAS Everyone
Landed on time 86.1% 84.0%
Average delay 6.6 min 7.9 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.1% 0.1%

On this route SAS is 2.1 points better than the other airlines flying it.

Against its own network it is 4.2 points better than usual: SAS lands on time 81.9% of the time across all 12,861 of its UK flights a year, against 86.1% here.

In money terms: about 3 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 1,463 km, same £220.

Everything we hold on Heathrow to Stockholm (Arlanda) · SAS 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.