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Delayed on Lufthansa from Heathrow to Frankfurt Main?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
7,987
Landed on time
72.7%
Distance apart
654 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Heathrow

£220each under UK law

Leaving Frankfurt Main

€250each under EU law

Heathrow to Frankfurt Main is 654 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 Lufthansa does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Heathrow to Frankfurt Main 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 Lufthansa Everyone
Landed on time 72.7% 74.2%
Average delay 12 min 11.6 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.1% 0.1%

Lufthansa flies 76% 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 2.5 points better than usual: Lufthansa lands on time 70.2% of the time across all 24,888 of its UK flights a year, against 72.7% here.

In money terms: about 8 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 £220 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 654 km, same £220.

Airline Landed on time
British Airways 79.0%

Everything we hold on Heathrow to Frankfurt Main · Lufthansa 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.