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CPH→BOS

Copenhagen to Boston

Flights
652 both ways
Carriers
1
Distance
3,660 mi
Period
July 2025 to June 2026
—GRADE

No public record scores Copenhagen to Boston Logan 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 652 flights between the two airports in the twelve months to June 2026, about one departure a day in each direction, flown by SAS. EUROCONTROL's year-to-date figure has 82.2% of all departures from Copenhagen leaving within 15 minutes of schedule and 80.0% of arrivals landing within 15 minutes. At the other end, 74.6% of BOS'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, Copenhagen ranks 6th 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

652

Both directions, July 2025 to June 2026 (DOT)

Carriers

1

SAS

CPH departures on time

82.2%

All destinations, year to date (EUROCONTROL)

BOS domestic on time

74.6%

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 1.0 minutes of air traffic flow management delay per arriving flight to Copenhagen 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 BOS ran a little over an hour late on average over the last twelve months, and 3.05% of its scheduled flights were cancelled.

Carrier by carrier

Who flies CPH to BOS

SAS is the only carrier the DOT report shows on CPH to BOS, with 652 flights and an average of 197 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.

Carriers on CPH to BOS by flights operated
AirlineFlightsSharePer monthPassengers / flight
SAS652100%54197

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 CPH to BOS flies through the year

The DOT's international report puts 63 flights on the pair in July 2025, the busiest month of the window, and 39 in January 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 202563
  • August 202562
  • September 202555
  • October 202552
  • November 202552
  • December 202552
  • January 202639
  • February 202646
  • March 202653
  • April 202658
  • May 202660
  • June 202660
Flights in both directions together, as the DOT international report counts them; flights per calendar month.

The DOT's international report counts flights in both directions together: 652 between CPH and BOS from July 2025 to June 2026, about one departure a day in each direction, carrying 128,462 passengers. That makes it the 4th busiest of 12 US routes from Copenhagen and the 16th busiest of 21 European routes into BOS.

The departure airport

How Copenhagen is running

EUROCONTROL's figures for Copenhagen as a whole, every airline and every destination: 82.2% of departures and 80.0% of arrivals within 15 minutes of schedule from 1 January to 21 October 2026, with 96.9% of scheduled flights operated. The last seven days ran at 85.2% for departures, 3 points better than the year so far. Air traffic flow management delay attributed to the airport averaged 1.0 minutes per arriving flight this year, 0.6 over the last week.

EUROCONTROL punctuality at Copenhagen
WindowDepartures on timeArrivals on timeSchedules operatedATFM delay / arrival
Yesterday (21 October 2026)89.4%87.7%96.6%0.3 min
Last 7 days85.2%80.8%97.4%0.6 min
Year to date82.2%80.0%96.9%1.0 min

Every US route from Copenhagen, and its full punctuality record

The arrival airport

Landing at Boston Logan International

Boston Logan International is scored on this site from the DOT's domestic data: 74.6% of its 144,174 domestic departures arrived on time over the last twelve months, with delayed flights running a little over an hour late, and 3.05% 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 BOS reaches a flight from CPH 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

74.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late (DOT)

Avg delay

73 min

Delayed domestic flights only

Cancelled

3.05%

Domestic departures

144,174

Last twelve months

Boston Logan International (BOS) delay statistics, hour by hour and month by month

Your rights

EC 261/2004 on CPH to BOS

Every flight that departs Copenhagen falls under Regulation (EC) 261/2004, whichever airline flies it and wherever it lands. If it arrives at Boston Logan International three hours or more late, or is cancelled with under 14 days' notice, and the cause was within the airline's control, each passenger is owed €600 (€300 if the airline got you there under four hours late), on top of rebooking and care. Weather, air traffic control restrictions and strikes outside the airline are the usual exemptions. The return flight from BOS is covered only when the carrier is EU based. The sector is about 3,660 miles, 5,889 km, which puts it in the top distance band.

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What to do with this

Booking CPH to BOS

There is no grade to give CPH to BOS without a route record, and this site does not invent one. What the three sources support: about one departure a day in each direction, a single carrier, a departure airport that gets 82% of its departures away on time and an arrival airport that runs 75% on time domestically. Leave two hours for any onward connection at BOS; immigration comes before the connecting flight.

Common questions

CPH to BOS questions

How often are CPH to BOS 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 (82.2% of departures within 15 minutes this year) and BOS's domestic record in the DOT data (74.6% on time).

Which airlines fly CPH to BOS?

SAS. SAS accounted for 100% of the 652 flights the DOT counted on the pair.

Can I claim compensation for a delayed CPH to BOS flight?

Yes, if the flight arrived three hours or more late or was cancelled at short notice for a reason within the airline's control: departures from Copenhagen are covered by EC 261/2004 whichever airline operates them. The fixed amount for a sector of this length is €600 a passenger, €300 if the airline got you there under four hours late. The return from BOS is covered only on an EU carrier.

How many flights a day are there from CPH to BOS?

About one departure a day in each direction: the DOT counted 652 flights in both directions over twelve months, peaking at 63 in July 2025 and falling to 39 in January 2026.

Related

Where to go next

Denmark 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.