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Delayed on British Airways from Heathrow to Toronto?

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

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Flights a year
1,401
Landed on time
68.8%
Distance apart
5,707 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Heathrow

£520each under UK law

Leaving Toronto

£520each under UK law

Toronto is outside the UK and EU, but British Airways is a UK airline, so its flights back are covered.

Heathrow to Toronto is 5,707 km, which fixes the figure: £520 each leaving Heathrow, and the same £520 each coming back on British Airways. It is per person, so four of you is £2,080.

How British Airways does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Heathrow to Toronto 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 68.8% 71.9%
Average delay 16.9 min 16.9 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.6% 1.2%

On this route British Airways is 3.1 points worse than the other airlines flying it.

Against its own network it is 8.1 points worse than usual: British Airways lands on time 76.9% of the time across all 308,727 of its UK flights a year, against 68.8% here.

In money terms: about 8 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 170. Everyone on board one of those is owed at least £260 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 5,707 km, same £520 each.

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British Airways flights between Heathrow and Toronto

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

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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.