New York → Paris flights

JFK–Paris fares cluster near $247 — spread is unusually tight

Key takeaways

• $247 median fare across all 30 days sampled in the last month
• Middle half of fares fell between $234 and $251 — a narrow band
• Low end hit $204, but that was an outlier versus the tighter typical range
• High end topped out at $257, just $10 above the median
• 26% spread from low to high, but most fares sat much closer together than that suggests

30-day price trend

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The full picture

Over the last 30 days, every day in the window had a cached fare for JFK–Paris, giving a solid, complete picture. The median sat at $247, and the middle half of all fares (p25–p75) fell within just $17 of each other — between $234 and $251. That's a tight cluster for a transatlantic route, meaning most travelers booking in this window saw prices close to the median rather than wild swings.

The headline spread of 26% (from $204 to $257) looks wider than the data really behaves day to day. The $204 low appears to be a one-off rather than part of a recurring pattern, since the bulk of fares — the p25 to p75 range — never dropped below $234. That distinction matters: it tells us the realistic savings from timing alone are modest, likely in the $15-$20 range versus the median, not the $50+ gap between the absolute low and high.

We don't have day-of-week or carrier-level detail in this dataset, so we can't say whether Tuesday departures or a specific airline reliably beats the median — any claim like that would be guesswork. What we can say with confidence is that this route is currently priced consistently: if you see something at or below $240, that's a solid fare by the last month's standards, and there's little evidence of a specific booking window producing dramatically better deals. The honest caveat is that this snapshot reflects just one 30-day period; seasonal demand (especially approaching peak summer or holiday travel to Paris) could shift both the median and the spread in ways this data doesn't capture.

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