AirportsLos Angeles

Los Angeles to New York

🇺🇸LAX🇺🇸JFKLos Angeles International Airport to John F. Kennedy International AirportDomestic, United States
Distance
3,974 km
2,469 miles
Frequency
250 departures a week
S26 schedule
Airlines
3
JetBlue Airways, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, codeshares included
Typical delay
21 min
94 departures

The route

Great circle, 3,974 km
LAXJFK3,974 km
3,974 km (2,469 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 Los Angeles International Airport on this route are typically 21 minutes late (likely 17 to 25), across 94 departures we tracked between 2026-03-12 and 2026-07-31.

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

1 of 45 flight numbers tracked often enough to describe
FlightAirlineDepartsAircraftDepartures seen
DL 915Delta Air Lines23:55B76336

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

Both airports

How these numbers are measured