ZRH→JFK

Swiss flew 68% of the 2,124 flights between ZRH and JFK in the DOT's count, with Delta Air Lines on 681. Loads averaged 188 passengers a flight, which on this route means wide-body aircraft nearly full.

The DOT's international report puts 187 flights on the pair in March 2026, the busiest month of the window, and 146 in February 2026, the thinnest. The schedule is close to flat through the year, which usually means business traffic rather than holiday demand underwrites it.

EUROCONTROL's figures for Zurich as a whole, every airline and every destination: 60.8% of departures and 73.0% of arrivals within 15 minutes of schedule from 1 January to 21 October 2026, with 95.5% of scheduled flights operated. The last seven days ran at 61.9% for departures, about a point better than the year so far. Air traffic flow management delay attributed to the airport averaged 2.6 minutes per arriving flight this year, 2.1 over the last week.

Every US route from Zurich, and its full punctuality record

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 ZRH 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.

John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics, hour by hour and month by month

Every flight that departs Zurich 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 3,921 miles, 6,309 km, which puts it in the top distance band.

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There is no grade to give ZRH to JFK without a route record, and this site does not invent one. What the three sources support: about three departures a day in each direction, a choice of two carriers, a departure airport that gets 61% 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.

• Zurich (ZRH): every US route
• John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics
• ZRH to ORD, Chicago (ORD)1,694 flights
• ZRH to EWR, Newark (EWR)1,427 flights
• ZRH to IAD, Washington (IAD)1,353 flights
• ZRH to BOS, Boston (BOS)1,142 flights
• LHR to JFK, from London14,572 flights
• CDG to JFK, from Paris7,055 flights
• FCO to JFK, from Rome3,990 flights
• FRA to JFK, from Frankfurt3,168 flights
• Every Europe-to-US route and airport

Switzerland publishes no route-level punctuality, so this page cannot grade the route. The UK pages in this section can, because the CAA does.