JFK New York

How deep the JFK board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from JFK. This reads the same 227 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 119of the 227 destinations are flown by one airline
• 61destinations run less than once a day
• 65destinations have four or more departures a day
• 42.3%of the destinations name Delta Air Lines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at JFK

108 airlines appear on the JFK board and they do not hold it evenly. Delta Air Lines is on 96 of the 227 destinations, 42.3 per cent of them, and on 20 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 561.3 of the 730.2 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is JetBlue Airways on 83 destinations. 68 of the 108 airlines at JFK appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

That is a middling concentration at JFK: one airline on 42.3 per cent of the destinations and the other 57.7 per cent spread across 107 airlines. A cancellation inside the Delta Air Lines network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 131 destinations Delta Air Lines does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the JFK board is daily

Of the 227 destinations, 166 are flown at least once a day and 61 are not, 26 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the JFK board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: JFK to White Plains (HPN) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 115.4 of the 730.2 departures a day, 15.8 per cent of the whole board. The other 222 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at JFK usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Akron CAK	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	646	plan this
Alexander City ALX	the United States	AirShare LLC	1	1,382	plan this
Baku GYD	Azerbaijan	Silk Way West	1	9,361	plan this
Chattanooga CHA	the United States	Baker Aviation	1	1,180	plan this
Cincinnati LUK	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	923	plan this
Cologne CGN	Germany	MNG Airlines	1	6,060	plan this
Columbus OSU	the United States	Flexjet	1	790	plan this
Detroit YIP	the United States	Flexjet	1	832	plan this
Green Bay GRB	the United States	VJA	1	1,249	plan this
Greenville GSP	the United States	Delta Air Lines	1	978	plan this

The ten destinations out of JFK where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 43 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from JFK

The desk holds the return direction for 141 of the 227 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On 28 of them the return into JFK runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Guangzhou (CAN) at 1.1 out a day against 0.14 back, Guatemala City (GUA) at 0.86 out a day against 0.14 back and Cleveland (CLE) at 7 out a day against 1.3 back.

It runs the other way as well: Anchorage (ANC) files 7.1 a day back into JFK against 2.4 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at JFK

JFK keeps America/New_York time, eight hours behind Dubai in summer and nine hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 01:00 at JFK, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for an hour. That is a narrow window for a signature, a customs query or an authority to release, and it is the reason a consignment for JFK is briefed the day before rather than on the morning it flies.

The night at JFK

12 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from JFK that lands inside it leaves around 11:20, on a modelled block of 7h 10m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from JFK that lands inside it leaves around 10:28, on a modelled block of 7h 32m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from JFK that lands inside it leaves around 09:03, on a modelled block of 7h 57m. Those three departure times out of JFK are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where JFK turns up on the rest of this site

JFK carries two other pages on this site as well: the United States country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the JFK transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 55 airport pair pages that start or end at JFK, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are New York to Los Angeles (LAX), New York to San Francisco (SFO) and New York to Boston (BOS).

Eight of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Abu Dhabi to New York, Doha to New York and Dubai to New York. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at JFK written out.

Ten courier postings name JFK as the airport a courier here flies from: Yonkers, Bridgeport and New Haven.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with JFK already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 227 destinations above.