NH211 HND → LHR

NH211 distance and great-circle path

NH211 covers 9,592 km, or 5,960 miles. That makes it an ultra-long-haul flight, near the limit of what most twinjets can fly non-stop. Of the 255 routes we track, it ranks 69 by distance.

The plane leaves Tokyo heading north-west. On the map above, the line looks curved. That is normal. The shortest path over a round planet never looks straight on a flat screen. Our guide explains how the HND–LHR route appears on a tracker map.

Why NH211 block time differs from cruise time

The schedule allows 14.5 hours from gate to gate. That works out to about 661 km/h. A Boeing 787-9 cruises faster than that. The gap is taxi time, climbing, descending and holding.

Winds aloft shift the real flight time by up to an hour in either direction. See how high-altitude winds behave in our guide to turbulence and jet streams.

What to know about NH211

• Time change: you land 8 hours behind the time you left. That is enough to cause jet lag. Here is how pilots handle it.

We track 2 scheduled services between Tokyo and London, split between All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines. Among them, it is the first departure of the day on this route; it is given 5 minutes more block time than the quickest scheduled service; it is the only one flown with a Boeing 787-9.

Measured against NH211, which pushes back at 02:50:

• JL43 (Japan Airlines) leaves 8 hours 45 minutes later and is scheduled 5 minutes quicker, on an Airbus A350-1000.

Block time is gate to gate, so it counts taxi at both ends. That is why two flights covering identical distance rarely share a scheduled duration.

Our database contains 2 observations of NH211 across 2 UTC dates in this window, most recently 2026-07-29. Those records contain 2 distinct transponder addresses.

The median recorded visibility was 666 minutes. That is time inside receiver coverage, not airborne duration or an on-time-performance measurement.