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Delayed on Eurowings Luftverkehrs from Heathrow to Dusseldorf?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
3,083
Landed on time
71.7%
Distance apart
502 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Heathrow

£220each under UK law

Leaving Dusseldorf

€250each under EU law

Heathrow to Dusseldorf is 502 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 Eurowings Luftverkehrs does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Heathrow to Dusseldorf 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 Eurowings Everyone
Landed on time 71.7% 76.5%
Average delay 13.2 min 11.4 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.3% 0.2%

On this route Eurowings Luftverkehrs is 4.8 points worse than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 1.8 minutes longer.

Against its own network it is 2.4 points better than usual: Eurowings Luftverkehrs lands on time 69.3% of the time across all 13,418 of its UK flights a year, against 71.7% here.

In money terms: about 9 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.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 502 km, same £220.

Airline Landed on time
British Airways 82.2%

Everything we hold on Heathrow to Dusseldorf · Eurowings Luftverkehrs 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.