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Saturday, October 10 · typical odds for a Saturday (too early for a weather forecast) · issued Sun 12:00 AM ET · connections flying that day

Sat, Oct 10: Delta via Salt Lake City, leaving 12:35, is the safest bet: 77% chance of reaching New York on time; the tightest one-ticket connections make it only 68% of the time.

Nonstops that day

All 1 nonstop →
B6 359 JetBlue Flight history → BUR 21:25 JFK 05:59 28% 9% 2.2% 72%

Best connections that day, one ticket

Ranked by chance you reach New York on time, from each leg’s forecast for the day. Total trip = scheduled departure to arrival (New York is 3 h ahead of Burbank). Layovers up to 4 hours. Pick a connection for its 12-month details.

DeltaDetails → BUR 12:35 → SLC 15:33DL 3933 · flown by SkyWest 1h 37m Salt Lake City SLC 17:10 → JFK 23:47DL 697 8h 12m 96% 77%
AlaskaDetails → BUR 07:09 → PDX 09:27AS 562 1h 20m Portland PDX 10:47 → JFK 19:23AS 18 9h 14m 99% 76%
DeltaDetails → BUR 09:45 → SLC 12:43DL 3681 · flown by SkyWest 1h 52m Salt Lake City SLC 14:35 → JFK 21:25DL 671 8h 40m 97% 72%
AmericanDetails → BUR 07:01 → DFW 12:19AA 2599 3h 54m Dallas-Fort Worth DFW 16:13 → JFK 21:00AA 578 10h 59m 99% 62%
Tight connection: often missed
DeltaDetails → BUR 13:55 → ATL 21:42DL 483 51m Atlanta ATL 22:33 → JFK 00:46 +1DL 1632 7h 51m 68% 51%
How these are worked out. Each flight’s odds are our forecast for that day (typical odds until the weather forecast covers it); flights of airlines we don’t forecast yet use their 12-month record and are marked. Makes the connection: the first flight’s 12-month lateness curve, scaled so its chance of arriving 15+ min late matches the day’s forecast, at the layover minus the 45-minute minimum (90 on separate tickets). Arrives on time: first flight not cancelled × connection made × second flight not cancelled × second flight within 15 minutes, each from the day’s forecast.

About this data: forecast odds from our model for Sat, Oct 10 (newest published update); 12-month records from US DOT on-time data, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026, all US airlines; regional flights count under the airline that sells them. JSON