OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

New York to Norfolk

289 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on JFK–ORF arrive on time 80% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate80%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay35 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled3.8%of scheduled flights

based on 719 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Republic Airways
    On-time80%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel3.8%
    Flights719

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline23%
  • Weather3%
  • Air traffic (NAS)27%
  • Late aircraft46%
  • Security1%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly JFK → ORF

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

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 74% to 87% on time.

  • Middays87% on time · p90 20 min · 1,520 flights
  • Mornings86% on time · p90 15 min · 994 flights
  • Afternoons78% on time · p90 30 min · 842 flights
  • Evenings77% on time · p90 40 min · 485 flights
  • Overnights74% on time · p90 55 min · 673 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 76% to 87% on time.

  • Wednesdays87% on time · p90 10 min · 636 flights
  • Tuesdays85% on time · p90 20 min · 639 flights
  • Thursdays84% on time · p90 30 min · 628 flights
  • Mondays83% on time · p90 25 min · 641 flights
  • Sundays82% on time · p90 25 min · 646 flights
  • Fridays78% on time · p90 40 min · 630 flights
  • Saturdays76% on time · p90 45 min · 694 flights
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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.