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Delayed on American Airlines from Heathrow to Dallas/Fort Worth?

£520each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
3,020
Landed on time
69.2%
Land 3 hrs or more late
60a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Heathrow

£520each under UK law

Leaving Dallas/Fort Worth

£520each under UK law

Dallas/Fort Worth is outside the UK and EU, so coming back this only applies if a UK or EU airline operated the flight.

Heathrow to Dallas/Fort Worth is 7,627 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 American Airlines does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Heathrow to Dallas/Fort Worth 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 American Everyone
Landed on time 69.2% 67.5%
Average delay 23.9 min 24.1 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 2.0% 1.9%

American Airlines flies 86% 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 4.9 points worse than usual: American Airlines lands on time 74.1% of the time across all 15,514 of its UK flights a year, against 69.2% here.

In money terms: about 5 flights a month on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 50. Everyone on board one of those is owed £520 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for American Airlines.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 7,627 km, same £520.

Airline Landed on time
British Airways 56.6%

Everything we hold on Heathrow to Dallas/Fort Worth · American 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.