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Delayed on LOT Polish Airlines from Heathrow to Warsaw (Chopin)?

£220each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
2,138
Landed on time
65.8%
Distance apart
1,469 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Heathrow

£220each under UK law

Leaving Warsaw (Chopin)

€250each under EU law

Heathrow to Warsaw (Chopin) is 1,469 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 LOT Polish Airlines does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Heathrow to Warsaw (Chopin) 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 LOT Everyone
Landed on time 65.8% 71.5%
Average delay 15.6 min 13.5 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.1% 0.1%

On this route LOT Polish Airlines is 5.7 points worse than the other airlines flying it, and its average delay is 2.1 minutes longer.

Against its own network it is about the same as usual: LOT Polish Airlines lands on time 66.4% of the time across all 2,526 of its UK flights a year, against 65.8% here.

In money terms: about 2 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 1,469 km, same £220.

Airline Landed on time
British Airways 77.5%

Everything we hold on Heathrow to Warsaw (Chopin) · LOT Polish Airlines 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.