London UK to Maldives flight time

Each time I have gone to the Maldives [from London] it has taken about 11 hours to reach Malé International Airport (on Hulhule) with a direct flight.
the maldives share the flight with the sri lanka flight and its a round trip
london/manchester.maldives.....sri lanka.london
it takes longer coming back cos going you hit the gulf stream over the middle east and that pushes the aircraft along.
obviously you,re against it going back and it blows the same way all the time so it can be anything up to two hours longer

and once you arrive at Malé you still have the travelling time to your resort whether by seaplane, speedboat or Dhoni