Cheapest Places to Fly From New York: What JFK and Newark Deals Cost

• 291

  JFK and Newark observations that pass the feed's rules, 1–30 Oct 2026

• $223

  Median New York return deal fare across those observations

• 39

  Destinations with a sensible New York deal in October

• 29

  New York deals in the member feed on 30 Oct 2026

The cheapest places to fly from New York right now

If you live in New York and want the cheapest places to fly, the short answer is Florida and Texas. Newark supplied most of the cheap Texas fares; Florida was split, with JFK producing more sightings and Newark the two lowest fares. On 24 scan days between 1 and 30 October 2026, Blame the Fare’s deal scanner logged 291 New York deal observations that pass the feed’s current trip rules, across 39 destinations. They split into 166 from John F. Kennedy (JFK) and 125 from Newark Liberty (EWR). The median fare was $223 return, 48% of the observations were nonstop, and the median stay was six nights.

LaGuardia (LGA) produced no rows in the feed on any of those scan days, so this guide does not cover it. The live picture on 30 October 2026 was similar: the member feed held 29 New York deals, 14 from JFK and 15 from Newark, from $136 (Newark to Dallas, eight nights from 8 December) to $585 (Newark to Honolulu, seven nights from 8 December), with a median of $257. Fifteen of the 29 were nonstop. The full list is on the deal feed, and the JFK departures page shows what is checked from New York today.

That makes New York a strong airport pair for cheap domestic breaks and the Caribbean, and a thinner one for Europe than the size of the city suggests. It is also a market where the airport you choose changes the answer: the cheapest Texas fares in this data mostly left from Newark, while Florida and the Caribbean were split between the two airports.

New York destinations by logged deal fare

“Deals logged” counts how many times the scanner recorded a qualifying fare on that route, roughly once per scan day it appeared. A route with one or two observations is a hint, not a pattern, and the table says so rather than hiding it. Medians are rounded to the nearest dollar.

Airport codes and names in the table are as Google Flights returned them. Routes with a single observation are left out of the table: Miami ($199), Seattle ($257), Kansas City ($261), Liberia in Costa Rica ($298), Athens ($494) and Hong Kong ($989). They are real fares the scanner found, but one sighting says little about what the route usually costs. One four-night Rome sighting at $481 on Norse Atlantic also met the feed’s floor, but it sits below the five-night long-haul stay this guide treats as a real trip, so it is not listed.

Florida is the cheap, frequent escape

Florida was the most reliable cheap escape. West Palm Beach produced 35 observations at $199 to $239, and 34 of the 35 were nonstop. Fort Myers was $199 on every one of its six sightings with JetBlue and Delta, all nonstop. Miami, which Google Flights labels against the Fort Lauderdale code (FLL), appeared eight times at $169 to $199, all nonstop. Tampa ran $135 to $199 over five sightings, mixing nonstop and one-stop Frontier and Delta fares.

Orlando was the cheapest Florida fare at the low end: $115 to $199 over 11 observations, with seven nonstops. The $115 sighting was a seven-night Frontier trip from Newark on 10 November. On 30 October the live feed still had four-night nonstops to Orlando, Tampa and Fort Myers, plus a three-night Miami nonstop, all from $199 and departing 5 January 2027. If you only want a weekend, our guide to the cheapest days to fly explains why the day you return can matter more than the day you leave.

Dallas and Houston from Newark

Texas was where Newark beat JFK. Houston Intercontinental appeared 14 times, every one a Frontier one-stop fare from Newark, from $115 to $158 with a median of $143. Dallas/Fort Worth appeared 11 times from both airports, from $120 to $268; the cheapest were Frontier one-stops from Newark, while the only nonstop was an American fare at $243.

These are long domestic flights, so the feed asks for a longer stay than it does on a Florida hop. The cheap Dallas and Houston fares were mostly six to eight nights. The catch is the connection: every cheap Houston fare was one stop, and the 30 October Dallas fare at $136 was also one stop, with a total journey time of more than 10 hours each way. A nonstop can be worth paying for on this route.

San Juan, Sint Maarten and the Caribbean

The Caribbean was the strongest non-Florida region. San Juan appeared 16 times from $194 to $266, with a median of $214; six were nonstop and 10 needed a stop. Sint Maarten appeared 17 times from $244 to $290, though 13 of the 17 needed a stop. St. Thomas was $297 on all four sightings, all nonstop, and Punta Cana ran $293 to $334 over four. Santo Domingo was $302 to $325, all one-stop, three of the four on JetBlue.

On 30 October the live feed had San Juan at $195 both ways: an eleven-night JetBlue nonstop from Newark on 22 November, and a three-night JetBlue nonstop from JFK on 10 January 2027. Sint Maarten was $260 nonstop on Delta for three nights from 11 January. For more island ideas, see our guide to cheap flights to Mexico and the Caribbean.

California, the Mountain West and Hawaii

The West Coast was priced in a narrow band but rarely nonstop. San Francisco appeared four times at $257, with three nonstops; Los Angeles appeared four times at $256 to $258, with one nonstop; San Diego appeared 10 times from $225 to $307, every one a one-stop fare. Seattle appeared once, nonstop at $257. Portland appeared twice, both Alaska nonstops at $257 and $347.

Further inland, Denver ran $185 to $251 over eight sightings, mostly Frontier one-stops. Phoenix was $287 to $307 over two, Austin $271 to $292 over five JetBlue one-stops, and Sacramento $237 to $277 over three. Honolulu was the outlier: six sightings from $460 to $585, five of them with two stops, for trips of six to 14 nights. The 30 October feed had Honolulu at $585 for seven nights from 8 December on United, with one stop.

Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary

Canada was cheap from Newark. Toronto Pearson appeared 16 times from $184 to $287, with a median of $236 and seven nonstops; Billy Bishop (YTZ) added three sightings at $214 to $227. Vancouver was $344 to $366 over three one-stop sightings, and Calgary $377 to $382 over two. On 30 October the live feed had Calgary at $382 for 11 nights from 22 November, and no Toronto fare.

These are short flights, so the feed’s two-night floor applies and the cheap Toronto fares were mostly two to seven nights. Remember that Canada is a different country: check your passport and any entry rules before you book, and do not assume a U.S. domestic fare rule carries over.

Porto, Lisbon and the long-haul picture

Long-haul from New York was thin but not empty. Porto appeared 14 times on TAP Air Portugal from $429 to $544, with a median of $537; Lisbon appeared eight times from $428 to $484, with a median of $484. Both mixed nonstop and one-stop TAP fares, and the cheap sightings were for five to 13 nights. Palma appeared twice, at $716 and $788, both one-stop.

Tokyo appeared four times from $936 to $944, all one-stop, for six to eight nights; Hong Kong appeared once at $989 one-stop. Athens appeared once at $494 nonstop for nine nights. The feed’s own floor rises with flight time: two nights on short hops, three on flights of four and a half to six and a half hours, four on six and a half to nine and a half hours, and six beyond that. This guide applies a stricter five-night floor to long-haul deals, which is why a four-night Rome sighting is not treated as a recommendation here.

Which airlines carry the cheap New York fares

JetBlue carried 67 of the 291 New York observations, more than any other airline, and it was the main carrier on the Caribbean, Florida and West Coast fares. Frontier carried 42, almost all of them from Newark and most of them one-stop. United carried 33, Delta 32, TAP Air Portugal 22, Sun Country 21, American 13 and Alaska 11. Air Canada (7), Norse Atlantic (2), Arajet (2), Austrian (1), Porter (1) and Philippine Airlines (1) made up the rest. Thirty-six observations carried no airline name at all.

Bag rules matter when the fare gap is small. JetBlue says every fare, including its cheapest Main Base, includes a carry-on bag that fits the overhead bin and a personal item that fits under the seat; its published limits are 22 by 14 by 9 inches for the carry-on and 17 by 13 by 8 inches for the personal item. Checked bags are included only on some fares. Our guide to carry-on bag sizes by airline compares the limits.

Why some cheap New York fares never reach the feed

New York had far more raw deal observations than the 291 counted here. Of 733 JFK and Newark observations stored in October, 241 were short domestic hops such as Boston, Washington or Philadelphia, which the feed does not show because they are not really a trip. Another 32 were stays too short for the distance, 52 went to destinations without a reviewed photo, and 117 failed the traveller sense check, for example on awkward routing or a price above our own record for the route.

The rules apply when the feed is read, so the numbers in this guide are what a member would actually have been shown, not every fare a search engine returned. That is also why the table can look quiet on a route you expect to be cheap: a fare that is fine on paper still has to clear the photo, stay-length and routing checks before it becomes a card.

Getting to JFK and Newark by AirTrain, subway and NJ Transit

Both airports are Port Authority of New York and New Jersey airports, and both are reachable without a car. At JFK, the AirTrain connects the terminals with parking, the hotel shuttle stop, the rental car centre, the Long Island Rail Road and the New York City Subway. The airport says the AirTrain is free between the terminals, and that the one-way fare between JFK and Jamaica or Howard Beach is $8.75; children under five ride free. Pay with a contactless card, phone or OMNY card, and eligible rides are capped at $43.50 in a rolling 30-day period.

From Manhattan, the airport says the subway or LIRR takes about 20 minutes from Penn Station or Grand Central Madison to the AirTrain. The subway fare is $3.00 and the AirTrain is charged separately. An LIRR CityTicket costs $5.25 off-peak and $7.25 at peak for travel within New York City, again before the AirTrain fare. Our guide to the cheapest airports to fly from explains when a second airport is worth the trip, and our guide to the cheapest places to fly from Boston does the same job for Logan.

At Newark, the AirTrain is free between terminals, parking, hotel shuttles and the rental car centre. To reach NJ Transit or Amtrak at the Newark Liberty International Airport Train Station, the airport charges $8.75 one way if you do not already hold a rail ticket; PATH is a separate fare. The AirTrain does not connect directly to Terminal A: it is a 15-minute covered walk or a five-minute shuttle. The airport estimates seven minutes from the rail station to Terminal C, 11 to Terminal B and 20 to Terminal A.

The airport’s own sample journey table lists Newark Airport to Midtown Manhattan at 30 minutes and $17.25 on NJ Transit, and to Newark Penn Station at five minutes and $12.05. It also lists the CoachUSA Newark Airport Express bus at about 50 minutes and $23.50 one way, or $39.50 return, stopping at Grand Central, Bryant Park and the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

How to catch a cheap fare from New York

1. Pick the airport first. The cheapest Texas fares in this data mostly left from Newark, while Florida was split, so price both EWR and JFK before you fix a date.
2. Start with the destination, not the date. Open the deal feed or a map search and shortlist places under your price ceiling.
3. Check trip length. Most cheap New York fares were three- to eight-night returns; move the dates a day either way and watch the price.
4. Add bags and transport. Put the carry-on, checked bag and AirTrain or rail fare on the same line as the ticket, especially on Frontier.
5. Compare on more than one site. Our hub of the best flight search sites shows which to cross-check before paying.

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