Transatlantic route · frequency, carriers and airport records
VIE→JFK
Vienna to New York
- Flights
- 474 both ways
- Carriers
- 1
- Distance
- 4,228 mi
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
No public record scores Vienna 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 474 flights between the two airports in the twelve months to June 2026, about five departures a week in each direction, flown by Austrian. EUROCONTROL's year-to-date figure has 79.5% of all departures from Vienna leaving within 15 minutes of schedule and 80.0% 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, Vienna ranks 7th 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
474
Both directions, July 2025 to June 2026 (DOT)
Carriers
1
Austrian Airlines
VIE departures on time
79.5%
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 0.7 minutes of air traffic flow management delay per arriving flight to Vienna 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 VIE to JFK
Austrian Airlines is the only carrier the DOT report shows on VIE to JFK, with 474 flights and an average of 241 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austrian Airlines | 474 | 100% | 40 | 241 |
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 VIE to JFK flies through the year
The DOT's international report puts 53 flights on the pair in August 2025, the busiest month of the window, and 0 in December 2025, 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 202550
- August 202553
- September 202551
- October 202548
- November 202532
- December 20250
- January 202628
- February 202622
- March 202636
- April 202652
- May 202652
- June 202650
The DOT's international report counts flights in both directions together: 474 between VIE and JFK from July 2025 to June 2026, about five departures a week in each direction, carrying 114,029 passengers. That makes it the 4th busiest of 6 US routes from Vienna and the 26th busiest of 34 European routes into JFK.
The departure airport
How Vienna is running
EUROCONTROL's figures for Vienna as a whole, every airline and every destination: 79.5% of departures and 80.0% of arrivals within 15 minutes of schedule from 1 January to 21 October 2026, with 95.0% of scheduled flights operated. The last seven days ran at 79.4% for departures, in line with the year. Air traffic flow management delay attributed to the airport averaged 0.7 minutes per arriving flight this year, 0.0 over the last week.
| Window | Departures on time | Arrivals on time | Schedules operated | ATFM delay / arrival |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yesterday (21 October 2026) | 83.7% | 87.5% | 96.0% | 0.0 min |
| Last 7 days | 79.4% | 81.6% | 96.9% | 0.0 min |
| Year to date | 79.5% | 80.0% | 95.0% | 0.7 min |
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 VIE 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
EC 261/2004 on VIE to JFK
Every flight that departs Vienna falls under Regulation (EC) 261/2004, whichever airline flies it and wherever it lands. If it arrives at John F. Kennedy 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 JFK is covered only when the carrier is EU based. The sector is about 4,228 miles, 6,803 km, which puts it in the top distance band.
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What to do with this
Booking VIE to JFK
There is no grade to give VIE to JFK without a route record, and this site does not invent one. What the three sources support: about five departures a week in each direction, a single carrier, a departure airport that gets 80% 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
VIE to JFK questions
How often are VIE 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 (79.5% of departures within 15 minutes this year) and JFK's domestic record in the DOT data (74.3% on time).
Which airlines fly VIE to JFK?
Austrian Airlines. Austrian Airlines accounted for 100% of the 474 flights the DOT counted on the pair.
Can I claim compensation for a delayed VIE to JFK 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 Vienna 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 JFK is covered only on an EU carrier.
How many flights a day are there from VIE to JFK?
About five departures a week in each direction: the DOT counted 474 flights in both directions over twelve months, peaking at 53 in August 2025 and falling to 0 in December 2025.
Related
Where to go next
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- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics
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Austria 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.