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Delayed on KLM from Heathrow to Amsterdam?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
5,338
Landed on time
75.8%
Land 3 hrs or more late
16a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Heathrow

£220each under UK law

Leaving Amsterdam

€250each under EU law

Heathrow to Amsterdam is 370 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 KLM does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Heathrow to Amsterdam 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 KLM Everyone
Landed on time 75.8% 76.5%
Average delay 12.3 min 12.3 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.3% 0.3%

Against its own network it is 5.4 points better than usual: KLM lands on time 70.4% of the time across all 34,017 of its UK flights a year, against 75.8% here.

In money terms: about 16 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 £220 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for KLM.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 370 km, same £220.

Airline Landed on time
British Airways 77.1%

Everything we hold on Heathrow to Amsterdam · KLM 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.