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Route Reliability

Palm Springs → New York

PSPJFK · 2,378 miles · Palm Springs International Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport

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WanderNerd Reliability Score
66%
Arrive within 15 minutes
20 min
Average arrival delay
5.8%
Cancelled
223
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Alaska Airlines66% on time · 183 flights
  • Delta Air Lines67% on time · 40 flights

Too little history on this route to call a winner. We rank airlines only after 100 flights each.

What the data says

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

PSP–JFK flights arrived on time 83% of the time on Fridays and just 42% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Keep a backup plan handy.

This route was cancelled 5.8% of the time. Typical for U.S. flights is around 1–2%.

Slipping a little lately.

PSP–JFK flights arrived on time 65% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 68% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon62%(26 flights)
  • Tue70%(27 flights)
  • Wed69%(36 flights)
  • Thu60%(25 flights)
  • Fri83%(24 flights)
  • Sat72%(46 flights)
  • Sun42%(24 flights)
On-time trend by month
83%
Apr

Nov 78% → Apr 83% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
November 202578%32
December 202571%34
January 202656%32
February 202661%31
March 202651%35
April 202683%35

Based on 223 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.