Route profile
BUR→JFK
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Burbank to New York, 2,465 miles.
Right now
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Route reliability
July 2023 – July 2026
Better than 0% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 757 flights. How this is calculated
BUR → JFK arrives on time 54.7% of the time; the return trip, JFK → BUR, arrives on time 60.1% of the time, a 5.4-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
BUR → JFK spends 27.0 minutes on the ground on a 2,465-mile trip: 18.7 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at BUR and 8.3 minutes from touchdown to gate at JFK.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What stands out
This route's worst arrivals run unusually far past its typical one, a bigger gap than 99% of 4,598 comparable routes.
A typical arrival is 10 min late, but the worst tenth run 99 minutes worse than that.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Ranked against every other route with the same kind of figure and at least 4,598 in the comparison.
What sets this route apart
Where BUR to JFK differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
BUR to JFK struggles most at 9 PM: 53.0% of its flights scheduled then arrive on time, 26.2 points behind the 79.2% on routes of similar length at the same hour. Against all other routes the gap is 16.5 points.
JetBlue’s flights on BUR to JFK arrive on time 54.7% of the time, 20.7 points below the 75.4% it manages on its routes of similar length. Against all other routes the gap is 17.5 points.
BUR to JFK against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 9 PM departures | 53.0% | routes of similar length | 79.2% | −26.2 pts | 670 here, 55,976 there |
| Airline: JetBlue | 54.7% | routes of similar length | 75.4% | −20.7 pts | 711 here, 118,609 there |
Each comparison pools the flights of other routes, with this route’s own left out. Similar length means within 15% of this route’s 2,465 miles, with at least 5 such routes. A bucket is set against the most comparable group that has enough flights: similar length, then the same origin (at least 3 routes), then all other routes. Hours, weekdays and months appear only where both sides have 120 completed flights, and airlines where both have 600. The gap must be at least 2 points and 2 standard errors, and only the largest gap each way is kept per measure. These are differences in the flights counted, not causes.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
109 min late
against a median of 10 min late
BUR → JFK has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 10 min late, but the worst tenth are 99 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 757 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at JFK after arriving from BUR.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 60% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 45% | Likely to miss |
| 60 min | 33% | Likely to miss |
| 90 min | 18% | High risk |
| 120 min | 13% | Some risk |
This is one leg of a connection. Gate changes and the next flight's own schedule matter too. And a connection can fail before delay is even the question — this route cancels 4.10% of the time and diverts 1.98% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 711 arrivals on this route that landed later than the connection time less 30 minutes to reach the next gate.
The worst tenth of arrivals on this route land at least 109 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 757 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Why BUR → JFK runs late
July 2023 – July 2026
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for BUR → JFK. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on BUR → JFK, at 48.5%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late.
Airlines on this route
Carriers with at least 200 flights, by the airline that operated each one.
| Carrier | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JetBlue | 757 | 54.7% | 4.10% | 10 min | 18.8% |
Other ways to fly Los Angeles to New York
Airport pairs in the same two city markets, as the DOT defines them.
LAX → JFK is the most reliable pairing for this journey at 79.8% on time, against 54.7% for BUR → JFK.
Flying to JFK from the Los Angeles area? Compare BUR, LAX, SNA, ONT for JFK, with the same test for what counts as a real difference.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
Over the most recent 12 months (2024-10 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 63.1% against 48.3% in the 12 months before — improving by 14.8 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 757 BUR → JFK flight records from the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, covering July 2023 – July 2026. Late means 15 or more minutes past scheduled arrival; cancelled and diverted flights are left out of on-time rates.
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Related research: How Long a Layover Needs to Be · Two Airlines on One Route · Best Time of Day to Fly From Major US Airports
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