Direct flights from San Diego (SAN) to Tokyo (NRT): 7 nonstop departures observed each week across 1 airline. 100% of the last 7 tracked flights arrived within 15 minutes of schedule. The median arrival is 4 minutes early. No cancellations were recorded across the 7 tracked flights. The nonstop covers 8,924 km, an estimated 11 hours 56 minutes in the air. Measured by Pro Flight Search from live flight boards at San Diego and Tokyo. Updated 1 November 2026 at 15:11 UTC.
The SAN board at 07:11 shows departure at 12:20 instead of 11:45, gate 48.
Checked SAN board 07:11 · NRT board 22:03
of the last 7 tracked SAN → NRT flights arrived within 15 minutes
Median arrival delay is −4 min. 0 of 7 tracked legs cancelled in the sample. Will a delayed flight be cancelled? →
Flights JL65 varies daily
Actual board outcomes rather than schedules, paired departure and arrival per flight and day.
Conditions are tightest at SAN: a 49% chance of a 15+ minute delay. In this weather, the more delayed of the two airports is typically about +18 min. Both figures come from the two airports' delay records in similar weather. See live delays → · Weather risk by airport →
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Pro Flight Search records official board updates for nonstop SAN to NRT flights through the day: schedules, estimates, gate pushes and actual departures. The verdict above comes from operated flights, so it reflects what this route does rather than what the timetable promises.
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Pro Flight Search: San Diego (SAN) to Tokyo (NRT) route reliability, measured from operated flights on official airport boards.
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Smooth skies ahead. Both endpoints currently score the same, route health score 100/100. The airports section above carries the live status and delay window at both ends.
Great-circle distance is 8,924 km. With typical jet cruise speed plus taxi, climb and descent, expect roughly 660–795 min gate-to-gate on this route.
Japan Airlines runs the route with about 7 flights a week (daily). Since one carrier owns the route, a single disruption tends to ripple through the day.
A blend of departure-side delay at SAN and arrival-side delay at NRT, computed from rolling delay windows (refreshed every 40 minutes) with a daily-rollup fallback. Current MVFR, IFR, or LIFR endpoint weather caps the score when flight rules can limit throughput. Higher is healthier: 100 means operations are clean at both ends.
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