OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

San Antonio to New York

1,587 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on SAT–JFK arrive on time 77% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate77%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay40 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.3%of scheduled flights

based on 307 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Delta Air Lines
    On-time77%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel1.3%
    Flights307

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline28%
  • Weather24%
  • Air traffic (NAS)24%
  • Late aircraft24%
  • 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 SAT → JFK

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 — 75% on time.

  • Middays75% on time · p90 65 min · 655 flights
  • Afternoons68% on time · p90 65 min · 802 flights
  • Evenings59% on time · p90 110 min · 167 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 65% to 75% on time.

  • Mondays75% on time · p90 80 min · 234 flights
  • Thursdays74% on time · p90 60 min · 231 flights
  • Wednesdays73% on time · p90 60 min · 230 flights
  • Tuesdays69% on time · p90 50 min · 232 flights
  • Fridays67% on time · p90 80 min · 233 flights
  • Saturdays65% on time · p90 80 min · 231 flights
  • Sundays65% on time · p90 95 min · 233 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.