The sector is held by Alaska Airlines, Delta Air Lines, JetBlue Airways and EVA Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
SEA Seattle to JFK New York
Seattle Tacoma International, the United States, to John F Kennedy International, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 11.3 times a day
- Great circle
- 3,887 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 11m
- Door to door
- 11h 56m
What SEA to JFK looks like
The SEA to JFK sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Seattle SEA to New York JFK is a long haul sector of 3,887 km by great circle, flown nonstop 11.3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,887 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 11m.
Seattle SEA is a large airport in the network held here, 145 scheduled destinations and 717.9 departures a day. New York JFK has 227 destinations and 730.2 departures a day.
New York is 3 hours ahead of Seattle all year.
The pair sits inside the Americas, a corridor where the site already publishes 13 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on SEA to JFK from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEA to JFK | 11.29 | 79 | Alaska Airlines, Delta Air Lines, JetBlue Airways |
| JFK to SEA | 10.29 | 72 | Alaska Airlines, Delta Air Lines, EVA Air, JetBlue Airways |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 11.3 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 151.1 departures a week on SEA to JFK, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 5h 11m block time on SEA to JFK. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to SEA | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At SEA before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| SEA to JFK in the air, estimated | 311 min | 9h 41m |
| Formalities at JFK | 90 min | 11h 11m |
| Delivery run in New York | 45 min | 11h 56m |
| Door to door | 716 min | 11h 56m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for SEA to JFK is 11h 56m.
A courier who leaves Seattle at 09:00 local is on the ground in New York at about 17:11 local and at the door by 19:26 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in New York, the last useful departure from Seattle is around 07:34 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 61 of them join SEA to JFK.
| Connecting at | SEA to hub, flights a day | Hub to JFK, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit DTW | 7.86 | 5.71 | 3,910 | 7h 02m |
| Toronto YYZ | 2 | 3.43 | 3,896 | 7h 06m |
| Cleveland CLE | 2.43 | 1.29 | 3,926 | 7h 09m |
| Pittsburgh PIT | 2.57 | 1.43 | 3,956 | 7h 10m |
| Minneapolis MSP | 11.43 | 5.3 | 3,896 | 7h 14m |
| Washington DC DCA | 3.43 | 7.57 | 4,080 | 7h 15m |
With 11.3 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
61 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Detroit DTW, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5.7 times a day.
Through DTW the routing covers 3,910 km against the 3,887 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 02m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 51m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Toronto YYZ at 7h 06m and Cleveland CLE at 7h 09m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Seattle, Victoria YYJ is 157 km away by great circle and carries 22 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves New York, New York LGA is 17 km away by great circle and carries 109 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through SEA or JFK. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Boeing, Everett and RentonWidebody and 737 final assembly. A European supplier base and an American line, eight time zones apart. Logistics through Seattle SEA.
Plan Seattle to New York yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for SEA to JFK in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The SEA airport entry
- The JFK airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- The written lane, Dubai to Seattle
- The written lane, Seattle to Nagoya
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to New York
- The route calculator
More pairs through SEA and JFK: Paris to New York, New York to San Francisco, New York to Boston, New York to Atlanta, Madrid to New York, New York to Amsterdam, New York to Dublin, New York to Los Angeles.