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When is New York JFK security busiest? 6 am, then 2 to 6 pm.

Calmest around 11 am. Choose any hour on the board.

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Thursday, 5 pm

6,240

people screened, 8-week average.

Which checkpoint is busiest? Terminal 4 Main and Terminal 8.

Terminal 4 Main peaks at 6 am, Terminal 8 at 5 pm.

Security counts,

  • Terminal 4 Main

    6 am

    2,240 screened

  • Terminal 8

    5 pm

    1,420 screened

  • Terminal 5

    8 am

    1,520 screened

  • Terminal 1

    3 pm

    930 screened

  • Terminal 7

    11 am

    270 screened

  • Terminal 4 FIS CP

    2 pm

    380 screened

  • Terminal 4 Delta 1

    5 pm

    150 screened

Which departures leave on time? Leave in the morning.

5 am: 87% left on time. 8 pm: 60%.

Flight records,

DepartsLeft on time
5 am87%
6 am87%
7 am86%
8 am83%
9 am83%
10 am77%
11 am80%
12 pm77%
1 pm75%
2 pm71%
3 pm69%
4 pm71%
5 pm69%
6 pm66%
7 pm64%
8 pm60%
9 pm61%
10 pm60%

Which airline runs on time here? American and Delta lead.

Delta flies 47% of JFK departures and landed on time 73% of the time.

Flight records,

  1. American 24,802 flights, 3.8% cancelled 74%
  2. Delta 58,328 flights, 4.4% cancelled 73%
  3. Alaska 4,032 flights, 2.8% cancelled 69%
  4. JetBlue 35,630 flights, 4.9% cancelled 67%

Not ranked, under ten flights a day: Frontier 68% of 1,971, Hawaiian 62% of 124.

Where do JFK flights land late? Fort Lauderdale, Boston, San Francisco.

Lowest on-time rates of the 8 busiest.

Flight records,

ToFlightsOn time
LAX Los Angeles10,28573%
SFO San Francisco6,80069%
BOS Boston5,61568%
MCO Orlando4,80471%
MIA Miami4,52674%
ATL Atlanta4,22773%
FLL Fort Lauderdale3,90768%
LAS Las Vegas3,72176%

Every route from JFK

79 destinations with flights in the last twelve months.