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Delayed on Qatar Airways from Heathrow to Doha Hamad?

£520each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
5,284
Landed on time
74.8%
Land 3 hrs or more late
21a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Heathrow

£520each under UK law

Leaving Doha Hamad

£520each under UK law

Doha Hamad is outside the UK and EU, so coming back this only applies if a UK or EU airline operated the flight.

Heathrow to Doha Hamad is 5,241 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 Qatar Airways does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Heathrow to Doha Hamad 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 Qatar Airways Everyone
Landed on time 74.8% 74.7%
Average delay 11.9 min 12.1 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.4% 0.4%

Qatar Airways 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 about the same as usual: Qatar Airways lands on time 74.8% of the time across all 10,163 of its UK flights a year, against 74.8% here.

In money terms: about 21 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 250. Everyone on board one of those is owed £520 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for Qatar Airways.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 5,241 km, same £520.

Airline Landed on time
British Airways 73.9%

Everything we hold on Heathrow to Doha Hamad · Qatar 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.