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Delayed on Japan Airlines from Heathrow to Tokyo (Haneda)?

£520each if you land 4 hours or more late (£260 each at 3 to 4 hours)

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Flights a year
1,451
Landed on time
80.9%
Distance apart
9,592 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Heathrow

£520each under UK law

Leaving Tokyo (Haneda)

Not covered on Japan Airlines: Tokyo (Haneda) is outside the UK and EU, and Japan Airlines is not a UK or EU airline.

Heathrow to Tokyo (Haneda) is 9,592 km, which fixes the figure: £520 each leaving Heathrow, but nothing coming back, because Japan Airlines is not a UK or EU airline. It is per person, so four of you is £2,080.

How Japan Airlines does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Heathrow to Tokyo (Haneda) 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 Japan Airlines Everyone
Landed on time 80.9% 79.6%
Average delay 12.3 min 13.7 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.3% 0.5%

Against its own network it is about the same as usual: Japan Airlines lands on time 80.8% of the time across all 1,454 of its UK flights a year, against 80.9% here.

In money terms: about 4 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 at least £260 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 9,592 km, same £520 each.

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Japan Airlines flights between Heathrow and Tokyo (Haneda)

Japan Airlines flights we saw on this route in the last week. Tap yours, add your date, and we'll check it.

Leaving Heathrow for Tokyo (Haneda) · take-off time

Landing at Heathrow from Tokyo (Haneda) · landing time

Everything we hold on Heathrow to Tokyo (Haneda) · Japan Airlines across every UK airport

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.