AirportsNew York

New York to Los Angeles

🇺🇸JFK🇺🇸LAXJohn F. Kennedy International Airport to Los Angeles International AirportDomestic, United States
Distance
3,974 km
2,469 miles
Frequency
About 36 a day
S26 schedule
Airlines
3
JetBlue Airways, Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, codeshares included
Typical delay
24 min
107 departures

The route

Great circle, 3,974 km
JFKLAX3,974 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 John F. Kennedy International Airport on this route are typically 24 minutes late (likely 20 to 28), across 107 departures we tracked between 2026-03-08 and 2026-08-23.

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

2 of 42 flight numbers tracked often enough to describe
FlightAirlineDepartsAircraftDepartures seen
AA 1American Airlines09:15A321 on 98% of sightings, also A21N46
DL 773Delta Air Lines09:00not seen yet12

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

Both airports

How these numbers are measured