AirportsNairobi

Nairobi to London

🇰🇪NBO🇬🇧LHRJomo Kenyatta International Airport to London Heathrow AirportKenya to United Kingdom
Distance
6,841 km
4,251 miles
Frequency
25 departures a week
S26 schedule
Airlines
2
British Airways, Kenya Airways, codeshares included
Typical delay
54 min
37 departures

The route

Great circle, 6,841 km
NBOLHR6,841 km
6,841 km (4,251 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 Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on this route are typically 54 minutes late (likely 37 to 73), across 37 departures we tracked between 2026-04-06 and 2026-08-21.

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

2 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

1 of 6 flight numbers tracked often enough to describe
FlightAirlineDepartsAircraftDepartures seen
KQ 100Kenya Airways09:05B77W on 59% of sightings, also B78832

Departure times are local to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. A flight appears here once we have tracked it at least 10 times.

Both airports

How these numbers are measured