Transatlantic route · frequency, carriers and airport records
BEG→JFK
Belgrade to New York
- Flights
- 447 both ways
- Carriers
- 1
- Distance
- 4,499 mi
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
No public record scores Belgrade to John F. Kennedy International flight by flight. The US Department of Transportation's on-time database covers domestic flights only, and in Europe only the United Kingdom publishes punctuality by route, so what follows is built from the three measurements that do exist. The DOT's international report counts 447 flights between the two airports in the twelve months to June 2026, about four departures a week in each direction, flown by Air Serbia. EUROCONTROL's year-to-date figure has 71.4% of all departures from Belgrade leaving within 15 minutes of schedule and 70.5% of arrivals landing within 15 minutes. At the other end, 74.3% of JFK's domestic departures arrived on time in the DOT data, which says something about how the airport itself runs, not about this route.
On EUROCONTROL's year-to-date arrival punctuality, Belgrade ranks 39th of the 41 European airports on this site with service to the United States. Bilbao leads that table at 84.3% and Manchester closes it at 65.7%. A long-haul departure inherits the airport's morning: an aircraft that arrived late from its previous sector, or a departure queue built up by weather, delays the transatlantic wave with everything else.
Key figures
Flights
447
Both directions, July 2025 to June 2026 (DOT)
Carriers
1
Air Serbia
BEG departures on time
71.4%
All destinations, year to date (EUROCONTROL)
JFK domestic on time
74.3%
US DOT, last twelve months of domestic departures
Without a route-level record, the useful question is what the two airports do to a schedule. EUROCONTROL attributes 0.5 minutes of air traffic flow management delay per arriving flight to Belgrade so far this year; that is delay imposed by the network to hold traffic on the ground elsewhere, not the airline's own. In the DOT data, a delayed domestic departure from JFK ran a little over an hour late on average over the last twelve months, and 3.98% of its scheduled flights were cancelled.
Carrier by carrier
Who flies BEG to JFK
Air Serbia is the only carrier the DOT report shows on BEG to JFK, with 447 flights and an average of 195 passengers aboard each. A single-carrier route gives a delayed passenger no same-day alternative on the same ticket, which is worth knowing before booking a tight onward connection.
| Airline | Flights | Share | Per month | Passengers / flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air Serbia | 447 | 100% | 37 | 195 |
DOT international report, July 2025 to June 2026; flights in both directions together. No delay figures exist for this pair in any public source.
Across the year
How often BEG to JFK flies through the year
The DOT's international report puts 69 flights on the pair in June 2026, the busiest month of the window, and 16 in February 2026, the thinnest. A summer-to-winter swing of that size means the winter schedule is a different operation: fewer frequencies, so a cancellation leaves a longer wait for the next seat.
Flights per month, both directions
- July 202562
- August 202562
- September 202550
- October 202536
- November 202518
- December 202526
- January 202624
- February 202616
- March 202620
- April 202626
- May 202638
- June 202669
The DOT's international report counts flights in both directions together: 447 between BEG and JFK from July 2025 to June 2026, about four departures a week in each direction, carrying 87,200 passengers. It is the only US route from Belgrade with a page here and the 28th busiest of 34 European routes into JFK.
The departure airport
How Belgrade is running
EUROCONTROL's figures for Belgrade as a whole, every airline and every destination: 71.4% of departures and 70.5% of arrivals within 15 minutes of schedule from 1 January to 21 October 2026, with 97.8% of scheduled flights operated. The last seven days ran at 70.1% for departures, about a point worse than the year so far. Air traffic flow management delay attributed to the airport averaged 0.5 minutes per arriving flight this year, 0.6 over the last week.
| Window | Departures on time | Arrivals on time | Schedules operated | ATFM delay / arrival |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yesterday (21 October 2026) | 81.0% | 79.5% | 96.3% | 0.0 min |
| Last 7 days | 70.1% | 67.6% | 97.5% | 0.6 min |
| Year to date | 71.4% | 70.5% | 97.8% | 0.5 min |
Every US route from Belgrade, and its full punctuality record
The arrival airport
Landing at John F. Kennedy International
John F. Kennedy International is scored on this site from the DOT's domestic data: 74.3% of its 102,713 domestic departures arrived on time over the last twelve months, with delayed flights running a little over an hour late, and 3.98% were cancelled. Those are domestic flights, not this route, but an arriving transatlantic flight shares the same runways, the same weather and the same ground delay programmes, so a bad day at JFK reaches a flight from BEG just as surely. The airport's own page has the hour-by-hour and month-by-month detail, and its live FAA status appears above when the FAA has something to say.
Domestic on time
74.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late (DOT)
Avg delay
77 min
Delayed domestic flights only
Cancelled
3.98%
Domestic departures
102,713
Last twelve months
John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics, hour by hour and month by month
Your rights
Passenger rights on BEG to JFK
Flights departing Belgrade are outside both EC 261/2004 and UK261: Serbia applies its own passenger rules, and no fixed compensation amount applies to a delay. Rebooking and care depend on the airline's conditions of carriage.
What to do with this
Booking BEG to JFK
There is no grade to give BEG to JFK without a route record, and this site does not invent one. What the three sources support: about four departures a week in each direction, a single carrier, a departure airport that gets 71% of its departures away on time and an arrival airport that runs 74% on time domestically. Leave two hours for any onward connection at JFK; immigration comes before the connecting flight.
Common questions
BEG to JFK questions
How often are BEG to JFK flights delayed?
No public dataset records delays for this route flight by flight: the US on-time database is domestic only and only the UK publishes route-level punctuality in Europe. The nearest measurements are the departure airport's EUROCONTROL punctuality (71.4% of departures within 15 minutes this year) and JFK's domestic record in the DOT data (74.3% on time).
Which airlines fly BEG to JFK?
Air Serbia. Air Serbia accounted for 100% of the 447 flights the DOT counted on the pair.
Does EU261 cover BEG to JFK?
No. Serbia is outside the EU, the EEA and the UK, so neither EC 261/2004 nor UK261 applies to a departure from Belgrade. The return flight from JFK is covered only if an EU or UK carrier operates it.
How many flights a day are there from BEG to JFK?
About four departures a week in each direction: the DOT counted 447 flights in both directions over twelve months, peaking at 69 in June 2026 and falling to 16 in February 2026.
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Serbia publishes no route-level punctuality, so this page cannot grade the route. The UK pages in this section can, because the CAA does.
Sources: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, International Report (flights and passengers by carrier and airport pair), July 2025 to June 2026; EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Portal, airport punctuality and ATFM delay to 21 October 2026. Rebuilt 22 October 2026; the EUROCONTROL figures refresh with each weekly build, the others when their publisher releases a month. How these sources differ.