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Route Reliability

New York → Sacramento

JFKSMF · 2,521 miles · John F. Kennedy International Airport to Sacramento International Airport

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A Little Dicey
WanderNerd Reliability Score
58%
Arrive within 15 minutes
21 min
Average arrival delay
1.2%
Cancelled
165
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

JetBlue Airways is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 58% of the time across 165 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Thursdays have been rough.

JFK–SMF flights arrived on time 73% of the time on Tuesdays and just 46% on Thursdays. That gap is worth planning around.

Trending in the right direction.

JFK–SMF flights arrived on time 66% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 54% in the three months before that.

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon61%(23 flights)
  • Tue73%(22 flights)
  • Wed52%(23 flights)
  • Thu46%(24 flights)
  • Fri67%(24 flights)
  • Sat57%(23 flights)
  • Sun52%(23 flights)
On-time trend by month
88%
May

Jun 57% → May 88% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202557%30
July 202528%29
August 202577%31
September 202557%30
October 202552%25
May 202688%17

Based on 165 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.