Direct flights from San Francisco (SFO) to Dubai (DXB): 7 nonstop departures observed each week across 1 airline. 0% of the last 6 tracked flights arrived within 15 minutes of schedule. The median arrival is 53 minutes late. No cancellations were recorded across the 7 tracked flights. The nonstop covers 13,020 km, an estimated 17 hours 12 minutes in the air. Measured by Pro Flight Search from live flight boards at San Francisco and Dubai. Updated 2 November 2026 at 16:13 UTC.
The SFO board at 08:13 shows departure at 16:45 instead of 15:40.
Checked SFO board 08:13 · DXB board 20:09
of the last 6 tracked SFO → DXB flights arrived within 15 minutes
Median arrival delay is +53 min. 0 of 7 tracked legs cancelled in the sample. Will a delayed flight be cancelled? →
Flights EK226 varies daily
Actual board outcomes rather than schedules, paired departure and arrival per flight and day.
Conditions are tightest at SFO: a 46% chance of a 15+ minute delay. In this weather, the more delayed of the two airports is typically about +11 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 SFO to DXB 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 Francisco (SFO) to Dubai (DXB) 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 13,020 km. With typical jet cruise speed plus taxi, climb and descent, expect roughly 949–1146 min gate-to-gate on this route.
Emirates 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 SFO and arrival-side delay at DXB, 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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