New York → Paris flights

Target $191–$230 for JFK–CDG — spread signals real savings exist

Key takeaways

• Median fare is $230 across 30 daily cheapest-fare snapshots — a reasonable planning anchor for JFK–CDG.
• Bottom-quartile fares sit at $191, meaning roughly one in four observed days showed prices at or below that level — worth watching for.
• The low of $183 was recorded at least once, but treat it as an outlier rather than an expectation.
• A 60% spread between low ($183) and high ($293) is substantial, indicating this route has meaningful price volatility — timing your purchase matters more than on lower-spread routes.
• The p25–p75 interquartile range is $191–$239, so budgeting somewhere in that band gives you a statistically grounded target without chasing the floor.

30-day price trend

See full numbers and stats on the JFK → CDG price history page.

The full picture

JFK to CDG is one of the most competitive transatlantic corridors, and the 30-day data snapshot reflects that tension well. The median fare of $230 is the most reliable single number to plan around, but the 60% spread between the cheapest observed fare ($183) and the priciest ($293) tells a more interesting story: this route moves, and not all booking moments are equal. The interquartile range — $191 on the low end, $239 on the high end — is where most of the credible opportunity lives. If you can secure a fare at or below $191, you're outperforming roughly 75% of the days observed in this sample.

On timing within the booking horizon, transatlantic routes of this profile generally see fares soften in windows roughly 6–10 weeks ahead of departure, then firm up again inside three weeks as remaining seat inventory tightens. The data here doesn't include departure-date granularity, so we can't pinpoint a narrower window with confidence — but the spread percentage of 60% is large enough to suggest that passive monitoring with a fare alert set at or below $200 is a practical strategy rather than an overly optimistic one.

No dominant carrier is identifiable from this dataset, which is consistent with JFK–CDG being served by multiple airlines across both legacy and low-cost segments. That competition is likely one reason the floor reaches as low as $183. One honest caveat: 30 daily snapshots capture cached cheapest fares at a point in time and may not fully represent seat class mix, connection routing, or seasonal demand shifts. Fares you see live may differ, and the $183 low should be treated as a data point, not a guarantee.

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