New York JFK is one of 47+ US airports with long-haul scheduled passenger flights in 2025. JFK is the country's leading international gateway, especially to Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. It is also the number one airport for non-stop flights to parts of Asia, especially India.
The demand is enormous, and it is among the best-suited airports geographically for these areas. No wonder OAG data shows that JFK has one in five of the country's flights to them. JFK has flights to 85+ long-haul destinations this year.
New places include Bari and Catania . They follow various additions in 2024, such as Bucharest , Naples , Palermo , and Porto . It really has been about Southern European development recently.
Things have changed massively in the past few years. JFK's top 10 unserved long-haul routes The following table shows them in descending roundtrip traffic order. All passengers were indirect; they flew via a hub en route.
Not surprisingly, many Asian cities featured, pushing out multiple decent-sized European markets, such as Hamburg, Marseille, Düsseldorf, and Lyon. Routes make the world go around. JFK to Dhaka remains the largest unserved market, with 164,600 roundtrip passengers (451 daily).
However, flights will not return until Bangladesh meets the US Federal Aviation Administration's Category 1 safety standard. Like some other markets in the table, a recurring problem is a relative lack of premium traffic. This is usually the result of demand revolving around visiti.