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Route Reliability

Sacramento → New York

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

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A Little Dicey
WanderNerd Reliability Score
69%
Arrive within 15 minutes
38 min
Average arrival delay
1.8%
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 69% of the time across 165 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Thursdays have been rough.

SMF–JFK flights arrived on time 77% of the time on Tuesdays and just 58% on Thursdays. That gap is worth planning around.

Trending in the right direction.

SMF–JFK flights arrived on time 84% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 55% in the three months before that.

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon73%(22 flights)
  • Tue77%(22 flights)
  • Wed65%(23 flights)
  • Thu58%(24 flights)
  • Fri71%(24 flights)
  • Sat71%(24 flights)
  • Sun65%(23 flights)
On-time trend by month
72%
May

Jun 67% → May 72% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202567%30
July 202528%29
August 202570%30
September 202587%30
October 202592%25
May 202672%18

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.