New York → Buenos Aires flights

Target $451 or less for New York–Buenos Aires flights

Key takeaways

• Median fare is $451, based on 17 daily snapshots of the cheapest available cached fares on this route.
• Bottom-quartile fares reached $294 (p25), meaning roughly one-in-four snapshots showed pricing at or below that level — a meaningful gap from the median.
• The spread is 65% between the observed low ($294) and high ($484), signaling that timing your search has real dollar impact on this long-haul route.
• The p75 sits at $464, so the upper range clusters tightly near the high — most fare observations land between $294 and $464, with only occasional outlier pricing.
• Sample size is 17 days, which is below the 30-snapshot ideal; treat these figures as directional rather than definitive benchmarks.

30-day price trend

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

The full picture

The JFK–Buenos Aires route shows a notable pricing range: fares span from a floor of $294 up to $484, with a median of $451. What's striking is the asymmetry — the p25 is equal to the observed low, which tells us that cheap fares on this route appear in clusters rather than being scattered evenly. When deals surface, they're meaningfully cheaper (roughly 35% below median), but the window to capture them is narrow. The p75 of $464 confirms that most of the time, fares sit in the upper half of the range, close to the ceiling.

For a route of this length — roughly 11–12 hours, spanning two continents — a $294 fare represents genuine value. The data doesn't specify a booking horizon, but on long-haul South America routes generally, fares at the low end of the distribution tend to appear either well in advance (60–90 days out, when carriers seed inventory) or during short promotional windows. Given that 75% of snapshots came in at $464 or below, setting a fare alert around $380–$400 gives you a realistic trigger point that's meaningfully below median without waiting for a rare floor price.

No dominant carrier is identifiable from this dataset, so it's worth checking both legacy carriers and any connecting-hub options through Miami, Lima, or Bogotá — competitive hub routing on this corridor occasionally drives the low-end fares. One honest caveat: with only 17 data points rather than the full 30-day window, these figures carry more uncertainty than usual. The $294 floor could reflect a single short-lived promotional fare rather than a repeatable price point. Use the $451 median as your anchor and treat anything under $370 as a strong signal to book.

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