Most popular long-haul flights from the UK

Are you traveling from the UK to Asia or North America? These routes are some of the most popular long-haul flights from the UK – learn more and find your next flight here.

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Long-haul flights connect distant airports, and by the IATA definition the flight needs to take at least six hours to count as long-haul. If you are traveling out of the major airports in the UK, you find long-haul flights to several parts of the world. Some of the most popular destinations are located in North America and Asia.

Find long-haul flights from the UK

In the UK there are a number of large airports that offer long-haul flights – several of them being located in London. In the following compilation you find the most popular long-haul flights from the British airports, no matter which airport is your departing one. The routes are ordered by the highest number of seats and by following each link you can learn more about that specific route.

Route
Duration
Seats
London (LHR) - New York (JFK)
7h 50m
9570
London (LHR) - Delhi (DEL)
10h 45m
6000
London (LHR) - Doha (DOH)
7h 35m
5390
London (LHR) - New York (EWR)
7h 55m
5270
London (LHR) - San Francisco (SFO)
11h 5m
4850
London (LHR) - Mumbai (BOM)
9h 55m
4820
London (LHR) - Toronto (YYZ)
7h 45m
4160
London (LGW) - Dubai (DXB)
7h 5m
4060
London (LHR) - Los Angeles (LAX)
11h 25m
3990
London (LHR) - Hong Kong (HKG)
13h 5m
3970
London (LHR) - Chicago (ORD)
8h 45m
3760
London (LHR) - Dubai (DXB)
7h 0m
3600
London (LHR) - Singapore (SIN)
13h 40m
3570
London (LHR) - Boston (BOS)
7h 35m
3430
London (LHR) - Dulles (IAD)
8h 20m
3320
London (LHR) - Atlanta (ATL)
9h 30m
3310
Manchester (MAN) - Dubai (DXB)
7h 20m
3030
London (LHR) - Miami (MIA)
9h 45m
2970
London (LHR) - Johannesburg (JNB)
11h 0m
2920
London (LHR) - Dallas (DFW)
10h 20m
2460
London (LHR) - Seattle (SEA)
10h 0m
2230
Manchester (MAN) - Doha (DOH)
6h 50m
2150
London (LHR) - Tokyo (HND)
13h 50m
2040
London (LHR) - Bangkok (BKK)
11h 55m
2020
London (LHR) - Bengaluru (BLR)
10h 10m
1940
London (LGW) - Shanghai (PVG)
11h 30m
1870
London (LHR) - Charlotte (CLT)
9h 0m
1790
London (LHR) - Vancouver (YVR)
9h 35m
1780
London (LHR) - Abu Dhabi (AUH)
7h 0m
1740
London (LHR) - Cape Town (CPT)
11h 40m
1570
London (LHR) - Seoul (ICN)
12h 40m
1560
London (LHR) - Riyadh (RUH)
6h 25m
1530
London (LHR) - Houston (IAH)
10h 15m
1530
London (LHR) - Denver (DEN)
9h 55m
1490
Birmingham (BHX) - Dubai (DXB)
7h 20m
1420
London (STN) - Dubai (DXB)
7h 5m
1390
London (LHR) - Nairobi (NBO)
9h 15m
1350
London (LHR) - Sao Paulo (GRU)
11h 40m
1330
London (LGW) - Orlando (MCO)
9h 40m
1250
London (LHR) - Kuala Lumpur (KUL)
13h 20m
1250
London (LHR) - Montreal (YUL)
7h 35m
1210
London (LHR) - Bridgetown (BGI)
8h 55m
1210
London (LHR) - Las Vegas (LAS)
11h 0m
1210
London (LHR) - Beijing (PEK)
10h 0m
1200
London (LHR) - Philadelphia (PHL)
8h 15m
1190
Manchester (MAN) - Abu Dhabi (AUH)
7h 5m
1180
London (LHR) - Calgary (YYC)
9h 35m
1150
London (LHR) - Bahrain (BAH)
6h 40m
1130
London (LHR) - Lagos (LOS)
6h 40m
1030
London (LHR) - Muscat (MCT)
7h 10m
1000
This list was last updated on 2026-08-25. It's based on the number of average scheduled passenger seats (and not actual passengers) per day for the next six months. If the route does not have flights every day the average seats will be lower.

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