Delayed on Emirates from Heathrow to Dubai?
£520each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 4,385
- Landed on time
- 69.4%
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 18a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Heathrow
£520each under UK law
Leaving Dubai
£520each under UK law
Dubai is outside the UK and EU, so coming back this only applies if a UK or EU airline operated the flight.
Heathrow to Dubai is 5,498 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 Emirates does on this route
Better or worse than the route itself?
Everyone flying Heathrow to Dubai 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.
Emirates flies 73% 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: Emirates lands on time 69.8% of the time across all 12,944 of its UK flights a year, against 69.4% here.
In money terms: about 18 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 Emirates.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 5,498 km, same £520.
Everything we hold on Heathrow to Dubai · Emirates 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.