Route Reliability
New York → Sacramento
JFK–SMF · 2,521 miles · John F. Kennedy International Airport to Sacramento International Airport
- 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
- Mon61%(23 flights)
- Tue73%(22 flights)
- Wed52%(23 flights)
- Thu46%(24 flights)
- Fri67%(24 flights)
- Sat57%(23 flights)
- Sun52%(23 flights)
Jun 57% → May 88% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 57% | 30 |
| July 2025 | 28% | 29 |
| August 2025 | 77% | 31 |
| September 2025 | 57% | 30 |
| October 2025 | 52% | 25 |
| May 2026 | 88% | 17 |
Same trip, other airports
Keep nerding
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.