AirportsNew York

New York to San Francisco

🇺🇸JFK🇺🇸SFOJohn F. Kennedy International Airport to San Francisco International AirportDomestic, United States
Distance
4,152 km
2,580 miles
Frequency
174 departures a week
S26 schedule
Airlines
5
JetBlue Airways, Delta Air Lines, Alaska Airlines, codeshares included
Typical delay
31 min
55 departures

The route

Great circle, 4,152 km
JFKSFO4,152 km
4,152 km (2,580 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 31 minutes late (likely 25 to 34), across 55 departures we tracked between 2026-03-08 and 2026-06-22.

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

5 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 38 flight numbers tracked often enough to describe
FlightAirlineDepartsAircraftDepartures seen
DL 669Delta 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