New York → Bali flights

Budget $452–$460 for JFK–Bali — the range is tighter than you'd expect

Key takeaways

• $457 is the median one-way fare across 30 days of cached price snapshots — a solid planning anchor.
• The middle 50% of fares landed between $452 and $460 — an $8 spread that signals a remarkably stable pricing environment.
• The absolute low observed was $427, roughly 6% below the median — worth jumping on if you see it.
• At 14% spread (low to high), this route sits just under our threshold for 'meaningfully volatile' pricing, so dramatic last-minute bargains are unlikely.
• The high end reached only $486, meaning even 'bad' timing costs you less than $60 over the best fare observed.

30-day price trend

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

The full picture

The JFK-to-Bali corridor is a long-haul route that typically involves one or two stops, and the 30-day fare data reflects a market that carriers appear to be pricing with unusual consistency. The $457 median, flanked by a p25 of $452 and a p75 of $460, tells you that on most days you're shopping, fares will land within a tight $8 band. That's not the wild swing you might expect on a 20-plus-hour journey spanning multiple airline partnerships. The $427 floor is real but rare — it's the kind of fare to set an alert for rather than to wait around hoping for.

Because the spread is only 14% from low to high, this route does not reward aggressive timing games the way higher-volatility corridors do. On routes where spreads exceed 30–40%, booking six to eight weeks out versus two weeks out can mean hundreds of dollars saved. Here, the evidence suggests fares move within a corridor that's already been compressed — likely reflecting consolidated codeshare pricing between the handful of carriers that serve this market with competitive layover options. Your best strategy is to treat $452 as a reasonable target, book when you see anything in that range, and treat $427 as a genuine opportunity if an alert surfaces it.

No carrier-specific patterns are visible in the data provided, so claims about one airline consistently undercutting another on this route would be speculative. One honest caveat: 30 daily snapshots capture a single rolling window of market conditions. Seasonal demand shifts — particularly around Bali's peak dry-season months and major U.S. holiday travel periods — can push fares outside this observed range entirely. Use these figures as a baseline for current conditions, not a guarantee of what you'll see three or six months from now.

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