EDI

New York (JFK) takes 24% of the airport's US traffic, followed by Newark (EWR) (886), Boston (BOS) (723), Washington (IAD) (541) and Atlanta (ATL) (445). Among them the CAA record runs from 84.7% on time to Philadelphia (PHL) down to 56.1% to Orlando (MCO), 29 points apart; the destination matters as much as the departure airport.

Flights: DOT international report, both directions, July 2025 to June 2026. A route needs 100 flights for a page. Punctuality columns: CAA departures from Edinburgh, September 2025 to August 2026.

United Airlines flew 39% of the airport's US flights, with Delta Air Lines at 1,308, JetBlue Airways at 736, American Airlines at 607 and Virgin Atlantic at 128. Five carriers in all is a competitive market by transatlantic standards, and the route pages show that the gaps between them are not small.

• United Airlines1,777 flights · 39%
• Delta Air Lines1,308 flights · 29%
• JetBlue Airways736 flights · 16%
• American Airlines607 flights · 13%
• Virgin Atlantic128 flights · 3%

Over the seven days to 21 October 2026, 73.0% of departures and 77.0% of arrivals were within 15 minutes, 2 points better than the year to date. 97.0% of scheduled flights have operated this year, the remainder cancelled or never filed. Air traffic flow management delay charged to the airport, the minutes the network held flights on the ground elsewhere to protect it, averaged 0.0 per arrival this year and 0.0 over the last week. These are whole-airport figures from EUROCONTROL's Network Manager, published daily and refreshed here with each build; the long-haul bank usually runs a little better than the airport average because wide-body schedules carry more slack.

The CAA matched 2,252 departures from Edinburgh to the United States between September 2025 and August 2026; 73.3% left within 15 minutes, 2 points ahead of the airport's 71.0% across all 59,639 departures to every destination. 1.81% of transatlantic departures left three hours or more late and 1.9% were cancelled; a year earlier the same months ran at 72.6% on time.

Every departure from Edinburgh is covered by UK261, whichever airline operates it: a flight arriving in the United States three hours or more late for a reason within the airline's control owes each passenger £520 on these distances, halved if the arrival was under four hours late, plus care and rebooking. Flights back from the United States are covered only on UK and EU carriers.

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For a transatlantic trip from Edinburgh, the route page is the place to decide: the UK routes carry a full departure record by carrier and month, each shows who flies the pair, how often, and what the airport at each end does to a schedule. Leave at least two hours for any onward connection in the United States; immigration is cleared at the first point of entry, before the connecting flight.

• EDI to JFK, New York (JFK)74.5%
• EDI to EWR, Newark (EWR)65.4%
• EDI to BOS, Boston (BOS)75.5%
• EDI to IAD, Washington (IAD)70.2%
• EDI to ATL, Atlanta (ATL)80.0%
• EDI to PHL, Philadelphia (PHL)84.7%
• John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics
• Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
• Boston Logan International (BOS) delay statistics
• London Heathrow (LHR), also in United Kingdom
• London Gatwick (LGW), also in United Kingdom
• Manchester (MAN), also in United Kingdom
• Glasgow (GLA), also in United Kingdom
• Every Europe-to-US route and airport