ANC to JFK flight delays
Anchorage, AK (ANC) New York, NY (JFK) · 3,386 miles
22 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
This route flew fewer than 50 times in the period, which is too few for an on-time rate to mean anything. The figures below are shown as recorded, but the route is not graded.
95.45%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
89 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
4 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Flights from Anchorage to New York are among the most dependable in the record. A route this punctual is usually a short hop between airports with slots to spare.
The shape of the lateness matters here. Flights on this route are not late often, but when they are late they are late by about 89 minutes — long enough to lose a connection or an evening. The on-time percentage looks reassuring and understates the consequence of being on the wrong flight.
This route does better than its own airport. Departures from ANC overall run 11.3 points less punctual than this particular one — so whatever congestion ANC has, this route is largely escaping it.
At 3,386 miles this is a long-haul route, where the arithmetic of delay differs: a long flight has hours of cruise in which to make up a late departure, so departures slip more often than arrivals do.
Every airline on ANC to JFK
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Airlines | 22 | 95.45% | 0% | 89 min | — |
The return leg
JFK to ANC New York back to Anchorage 95.24% on time —Other routes from Anchorage
Common questions
Are flights from Anchorage to New York usually delayed?
95.45% of flights on the ANC to JFK route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 1 in every ten arrived late. That is better than the average route in this record.
How often are ANC to JFK flights cancelled?
0% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 1 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
When ANC to JFK flights are late, how late are they?
About 89 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on ANC to JFK during March 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →