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Delayed on Air India from Heathrow to Mumbai?

£520each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
1,447
Landed on time
49.9%
Land 3 hrs or more late
42a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Heathrow

£520each under UK law

Leaving Mumbai

£520each under UK law

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

Heathrow to Mumbai is 7,213 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 Air India does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Heathrow to Mumbai 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 Air India Everyone
Landed on time 49.9% 64.9%
Average delay 34.8 min 22.2 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 2.9% 1.3%

On this route Air India is 15 points worse than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 12.6 minutes longer.

Against its own network it is 4.5 points better than usual: Air India lands on time 45.4% of the time across all 5,899 of its UK flights a year, against 49.9% here.

In money terms: about 4 flights a month on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 34. Everyone on board one of those is owed £520 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for Air India.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 7,213 km, same £520.

Everything we hold on Heathrow to Mumbai · Air India across every UK airport

Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority punctuality statistics, August 2025 to July 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.