New York to Buffalo nonstop
Yes: Republic and American fly direct from New York (LGA) to Buffalo (BUF) about 2 times a day, year-round.
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New York to Buffalo in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 292 miles nonstop, about 1 hr 5 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year: busiest in September 2025 (43 flights a week), quietest in August 2026 (17 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 43 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 39 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 32 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 27 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 31 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 32 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 30 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 29 flights a week
- May 2026: 34 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 26 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 19 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 17 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Republic 90% (regional operator), American 10% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 2,625 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $100 and $200 one way, median $125. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $200, 2,297 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $125 one way, middle half $100 to $200, 2,347 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $75 to $175, 1,898 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $100 to $200, 2,625 tickets
Oct to Dec, Jan to Mar and Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $125 one way) and Jul to Sep trips cost the most (median $150), in the DOT ticket survey for Q3 2024 to Q2 2025. Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Buffalo to New York nonstop.
Other airports near New York with nonstops to Buffalo
Within about 100 miles of LaGuardia Airport
Also nonstop from New York (LGA)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Chicago (ORD) about 30 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 21 times a day
- Boston (BOS) about 19 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 17 times a day
- Miami (MIA) about 14 times a day
- Washington (DCA) about 12 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 12 times a day
- Houston (IAH) about 11 times a day
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