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London to Tokyo

🇬🇧LHR🇯🇵HNDLondon Heathrow Airport to Tokyo Haneda International AirportUnited Kingdom to Japan
Distance
9,592 km
5,960 miles
Frequency
About 9 a day
S26 schedule
Airlines
3
British Airways, Japan Airlines, All Nippon Airways, codeshares included
Typical delay
29 min
106 departures

The route

Great circle, 9,592 km
LHRHND9,592 km
9,592 km (5,960 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.

How delayed is this route?

Measured over months

Departures from London Heathrow Airport on this route are typically 29 minutes late (likely 26 to 32), across 106 departures we tracked between 2026-03-13 and 2026-08-23.

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.

Airlines on this route

3 airlines with a flight number here

Every airline that puts its own flight number on this route. On a busy pair most of them are codeshare partners selling seats on another airline's aircraft, so this is wider than the list of airlines that actually operate it.

Flights on this route

3 of 9 flight numbers tracked often enough to describe
FlightAirlineDepartsAircraftDepartures seen
JL 44Japan Airlines19:20A35K45
BA 7British Airways09:25A35K28
JL 42Japan Airlines09:10not seen yet28

Departure times are local to London Heathrow Airport. A flight appears here once we have tracked it at least 10 times.

Both airports

How these numbers are measured