OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

New York to Nantucket

199 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on JFK–ACK arrive on time 82% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate82%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay30 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled3.6%of scheduled flights

based on 278 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • Republic Airways
    On-time86%
    Medianon time
    p9025 min
    Cancel3.3%
    Flights92
  • JetBlue Airways
    On-time80%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel3.8%
    Flights186

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline42%
  • Weather2%
  • Air traffic (NAS)21%
  • Late aircraft35%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly JFK → ACK

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

Middays are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 79% on time.

  • Middays79% on time · p90 50 min · 711 flights
  • Afternoons70% on time · p90 70 min · 251 flights
  • Mornings68% on time · p90 80 min · 148 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 66% to 80% on time.

  • Wednesdays80% on time · p90 60 min · 147 flights · limited
  • Thursdays80% on time · p90 25 min · 161 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays79% on time · p90 35 min · 150 flights · limited
  • Fridays78% on time · p90 60 min · 161 flights · limited
  • Saturdays75% on time · p90 75 min · 174 flights · limited
  • Mondays71% on time · p90 60 min · 157 flights · limited
  • Sundays66% on time · p90 90 min · 160 flights · limited
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.