SMF to JFK flight delays
Sacramento, CA (SMF) New York, NY (JFK) · 2,521 miles
30 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.
60%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
149 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
62 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
This is a late route. Flights from Sacramento to New York miss their scheduled arrival often enough that a tight connection at the far end is a connection at risk.
The two directions do not behave alike. JFK to SMF arrives on time 15.2 points less often than the outbound. Delay accumulates through the flying day, so whichever direction is scheduled later tends to carry the worse record — which is an argument for booking the morning departure if the choice exists.
This route does worse than its own airport. SMF as a whole runs 14.3 points more punctual than these flights, which points at something specific to the route — the time of day it is scheduled, or the aircraft that feed it — rather than the airport.
Every airline on SMF 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JetBlue Airways | 30 | 60% | 0% | 149 min | — |
The return leg
JFK to SMF New York back to Sacramento 44.83% on time —Other routes from Sacramento
Common questions
Are flights from Sacramento to New York usually delayed?
60% of flights on the SMF to JFK route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 4 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
How often are SMF to JFK flights cancelled?
0% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 1 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
When SMF to JFK flights are late, how late are they?
About 149 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 SMF 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 →