Delayed on Etihad Airways from Heathrow to Abu Dhabi International?
£520each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 2,737
- Landed on time
- 72.6%
- Distance apart
- 5,516 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Heathrow
£520each under UK law
Leaving Abu Dhabi International
£520each under UK law
Abu Dhabi International is outside the UK and EU, so coming back this only applies if a UK or EU airline operated the flight.
Heathrow to Abu Dhabi International is 5,516 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 Etihad Airways does on this route
Better or worse than the route itself?
Everyone flying Heathrow to Abu Dhabi International 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.
Etihad Airways flies 92% of this route, so the right-hand column is mostly its own flights being averaged back at it. The comparison that means something here is against the rest of its network.
Against its own network it is 2.8 points better than usual: Etihad Airways lands on time 69.8% of the time across all 4,145 of its UK flights a year, against 72.6% here.
In money terms: about 8 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 £520 each.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 5,516 km, same £520.
Everything we hold on Heathrow to Abu Dhabi International · Etihad 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.