Delayed on Aegean Airlines from Heathrow to Athens?
£350each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 2,632
- Landed on time
- 75.7%
- Distance apart
- 2,427 km
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Heathrow
£350each under UK law
Leaving Athens
€400each under EU law
Heathrow to Athens is 2,427 km, which fixes the figure: £350 each leaving Heathrow, and €400 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 £1,400.
How Aegean Airlines does on this route
Better or worse than the route itself?
Everyone flying Heathrow to Athens 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.
Against its own network it is 3.1 points better than usual: Aegean Airlines lands on time 72.6% of the time across all 3,443 of its UK flights a year, against 75.7% 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 £350 each.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 2,427 km, same £350.
Everything we hold on Heathrow to Athens · Aegean Airlines 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.