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JFK vs SAT - 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
SAT

San Antonio, TX

San Antonio, Texas

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric JFK SAT
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 79.4% 81.7%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 82.5 min 71.5 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 20.6% 18.3%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 1.33% 1.10%
Total Flights 1,274,816 419,736
Delayed Flights 263,153 76,925
Cancelled Flights 16,932 4,599
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%

SAT - San Antonio, TX

Late Aircraft 44.1%
Carrier 32.9%
NAS 18.3%
Weather 4.6%
Security 0.1%

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 SAT

Route Flights On-Time
SAT → DFW
Dallas/Fort Worth
22,003 78.9%
DFW → SAT
San Antonio
21,998 73.2%
DEN → SAT
San Antonio
16,430 78.2%
SAT → DEN
Denver
16,390 84.3%
ATL → SAT
San Antonio
16,264 81.7%
SAT → ATL
Atlanta
16,218 87.2%

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.