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EK 1Dubai to London

Emirates🇦🇪DXB🇬🇧LHRDubai International Airport to London Heathrow Airport
Departs
07:45
local to Dubai
Operates
Daily
S26 schedule
Distance
5,498 km
3,416 miles
Typical delay
43 min
88 departures

The route

Great circle, 5,498 km
DXBLHR5,498 km
5,498 km (3,416 miles) great-circle, measured between the two airports' published coordinates. The line is the shortest path over the globe, which on a flat map bows away from a straight line.

What flies it

64 sightings

A388.

Aircraft types we recorded on this flight. A type is never inferred from the route, so a flight we have not seen closely shows none.

How delayed is EK 1?

Measured over months

This flight leaves Dubai International Airport a typical 43 minutes late (likely 39 to 50), across 88 departures we tracked between 2026-03-08 and 2026-09-06.

median delay of tracked departures on this leg. Flight Owl's own resolved departure predictions (flights our users tracked), not a census of all flights at the airport.

Other flights on this route

1 more
FlightAirlineDepartsDepartures seen
EK 3Emirates14:1561

Where it goes

DXB → LHRDubai to LondonEvery airline on this routeDXBDubai International AirportDeparture airportLHRLondon Heathrow AirportArrival airport

How these numbers are measured