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JFK vs CVG - Airport Comparison

Select two airports to compare on-time performance, delays, cancellations, and top routes using U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) data (2020–2025) across all 50 states. See our methodology for how metrics are computed.

Airport A
JFK

New York, NY

New York, New York

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Airport B
CVG

Cincinnati, OH

Cincinnati, Kentucky

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Key Performance Metrics

BTS on-time performance data, 2020–2025 cumulative.

Metric JFK CVG
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 79.4% 82.1%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 82.5 min 77.9 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 20.6% 17.9%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 1.33% 1.16%
Total Flights 1,274,816 423,583
Delayed Flights 263,153 75,821
Cancelled Flights 16,932 4,908
Top Delay Cause Carrier Late Aircraft

✓ / ▲ indicates the more favorable value. Data: BTS On-Time Performance, 2020–2025.

Delay Cause Breakdown

JFK - New York, NY

Carrier 43.4%
Late Aircraft 28.3%
NAS 24.4%
Weather 3.6%
Security 0.2%

CVG - Cincinnati, OH

Late Aircraft 34.7%
Carrier 34.0%
NAS 25.0%
Weather 6.1%
Security 0.2%

Top Routes

Top routes from JFK

Route Flights On-Time
JFK → LAX
Los Angeles
53,628 81.3%
LAX → JFK
New York
53,619 81.8%
JFK → SFO
San Francisco
35,481 81.9%
SFO → JFK
New York
35,481 83.2%
JFK → BOS
Boston
30,732 77.6%
BOS → JFK
New York
30,700 80.3%

Top routes from CVG

Route Flights On-Time
ORD → CVG
Cincinnati
16,599 80.5%
CVG → ORD
Chicago
16,347 80.4%
ATL → CVG
Cincinnati
15,260 85.3%
CVG → ATL
Atlanta
15,254 88.3%
CLT → CVG
Cincinnati
11,894 78.7%
CVG → CLT
Charlotte
11,892 80.6%

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025) On-time rates exclude cancelled and diverted flights. PlainFlights is not affiliated with BTS or the DOT

Every figure on PlainFlights is rendered directly from BTS On-Time Performance data, no number is typed in by an editor. This tool queries live on-time, delay, and cancellation figures for the two selected airports from the dataset. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.