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San Francisco to New York

🇺🇸SFO🇺🇸JFKSan Francisco International Airport to John F. Kennedy International AirportDomestic, United States
Distance
4,152 km
2,580 miles
Frequency
223 departures a week
S26 schedule
Airlines
4
JetBlue Airways, Delta Air Lines, Alaska Airlines, codeshares included
Typical delay
42 min
63 departures

The route

Great circle, 4,152 km
SFOJFK4,152 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 San Francisco International Airport on this route are typically 42 minutes late (likely 29 to 59), across 63 departures we tracked between 2026-03-13 and 2026-09-05.

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

4 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 38 flight numbers tracked often enough to describe
FlightAirlineDepartsAircraftDepartures seen
B6 816JetBlue Airways23:59A32115
DL 668Delta Air Lines11:47not seen yet11

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

Both airports

How these numbers are measured