$113 Find Cheap Flights from New York to Playa del Carmen

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Cheapest round-trip
$279
Overall average: $560
Spirit Airlines
Sat 1/31Sat 2/7
LGA - CUN • 1 stop
Cheapest non-stop
$280
Typical prices: $362-$805
Aeromexico
Sat 12/20Thu 12/25
JFK - CUN • Non-stop
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Cheap Flights from New York to Playa del Carmen (NYC-CUN)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from New York to Playa del Carmen that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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Recent round-trip flight deals from New York to Playa del Carmen

Sat, Jan 31 - Sat, Feb 7
Spirit Airlines Logo
7:59 pm - 9:13 am
LGA
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CUN
13h 14m1 stop
Spirit Airlines Logo
2:04 pm - 11:50 pm
CUN
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LGA
9h 46m1 stop
$279Spirit Airlines
Sun, Jan 11 - Fri, Jan 16
Aeromexico Logo
10:57 am - 3:25 pm
JFK
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CUN
4h 28mnonstop
Aeromexico Logo
4:40 pm - 12:51 am
CUN
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JFK
8h 11m1 stop
$279Aeromexico
Sun, Jan 11 - Thu, Jan 22
Spirit Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 12:16 pm
LGA
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CUN
6h 16m1 stop
Spirit Airlines Logo
11:59 am - 8:59 pm
CUN
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LGA
9h 00m1 stop
$280Spirit Airlines
Sat, Dec 20 - Thu, Dec 25
Aeromexico Logo
10:12 am - 2:40 pm
JFK
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CUN
4h 28mnonstop
Aeromexico Logo
8:15 am - 12:03 pm
CUN
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JFK
3h 48mnonstop
$280Aeromexico
Fri, Feb 6 - Mon, Feb 9
Spirit Airlines Logo
7:59 pm - 9:13 am
LGA
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CUN
13h 14m1 stop
Spirit Airlines Logo
2:04 pm - 11:50 pm
CUN
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LGA
9h 46m1 stop
$281Spirit Airlines
Sun, Feb 8 - Wed, Feb 11
JetBlue Logo
10:30 am - 2:55 pm
JFK
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CUN
4h 25mnonstop
JetBlue Logo
2:55 pm - 6:44 pm
CUN
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JFK
3h 49mnonstop
$286JetBlue
Wed, Jan 21 - Thu, Jan 29
JetBlue Logo
7:00 am - 11:19 am
EWR
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CUN
4h 19mnonstop
JetBlue Logo
12:46 pm - 4:30 pm
CUN
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EWR
3h 44mnonstop
$287JetBlue
Sun, Feb 1 - Wed, Feb 4
Delta Logo
10:57 am - 3:25 pm
JFK
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CUN
4h 28mnonstop
Delta Logo
4:35 pm - 8:34 pm
CUN
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JFK
3h 59mnonstop
$287Delta
Sun, Jan 25 - Tue, Jan 27
American Airlines Logo
6:30 am - 1:22 pm
JFK
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CUN
6h 52m1 stop
American Airlines Logo
4:35 pm - 8:30 pm
CUN
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JFK
3h 55mnonstop
$289American Airlines
Tue, Jan 6 - Tue, Jan 13
United Airlines Logo
6:50 am - 3:35 pm
EWR
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CUN
8h 45m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
8:23 am - 12:07 pm
CUN
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EWR
3h 44mnonstop
$291United Airlines
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Low seasonSeptember
Cheapest flight$113
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 26% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 26% increase in price.
Flight from Newark Liberty Airport to Cancun

When to book flights from New York to Playa del Carmen

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from New York to Playa del Carmen based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs for booking flights from New York to Playa del Carmen

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from New York to Playa del Carmen?

    When flying out of New York you’ll be using one of these airports: Newark, New York John F Kennedy Intl or New York LaGuardia. Playa del Carmen does not have its own airport so you’ll be flying into nearby Cancun airport, which is 31.1 mi away.

  • How long does a flight from New York to Playa del Carmen take?

    Direct flights cover the 1,557 miles separating New York and Playa del Carmen in about 4h 13m.

  • How many flights are there between New York and Playa del Carmen?

    33 direct flights run between New York and Playa del Carmen on a daily basis. On average, there are about 234 departures each week.

  • What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly between New York and Playa del Carmen?

    Consider leaving on a Monday and avoid Wednesdays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to New York, you’ll find the best rates on Sundays and the most expensive ones on Fridays.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from New York to Playa del Carmen?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from New York to Playa del Carmen.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from New York to Playa del Carmen?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Playa del Carmen from New York is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from New York to Playa del Carmen?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to Playa del Carmen with an airline and back to New York with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from New York to Playa del Carmen?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to Playa del Carmen from New York up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • Which airlines provide the cheapest flights from New York to Playa del Carmen?

    In the last 72 hours, the cheapest one-way ticket between New York and Playa del Carmen found on KAYAK was with Spirit Airlines for $113. Aeromexico offered a round-trip connection from $149 and Delta from $151.

Top tips for finding cheap flights from New York to Playa del Carmen

  • There is no airport in Playa del Carmen. Instead, you’ll be flying into Cancun Airport when flying between New York and Playa del Carmen.
  • The cheapest flight from New York to Playa del Carmen was found 48 days before departure, on average.
  • Book at least 1 week before departure in order to get a below-average price.
  • High season is considered to be March, April and May. The cheapest month to fly is September.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving New York to Playa del Carmen

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from New York to Playa del Carmen? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
7.9
DeltaOverall score based on 8009 reviews
8.1Boarding
7.9Comfort
8.5Crew
7.9Entertainment
7.3Food
Airline reviews

My flight was cancelled with no explanation after I had already cleared security. I was given 4 options to rebook, only one being non-stop like I had paid for. I grabbed it. It was 4 plus hours later and then took off even later. Biggest complaint is that I booked early and had an aisle seat. They gave me a "window" seat in front of the exit row, so the seat did not decline. I weigh all of 103 #s and it was tight for me! For what I paid, I feel I was kind of ripped off. I think they should have given me the empty comfort seat for the inconvenience. There was no apology nor any explanation as to why the flight was cancelled. My guess is it benefitted Delta in some way.

6.0 GoodMary Heather, Nov 2025
LGA - MKE
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My flight was cancelled with no explanation after I had already cleared security. I was given 4 options to rebook, only one being non-stop like I had paid for. I grabbed it. It was 4 plus hours later and then took off even later. Biggest complaint is that I booked early and had an aisle seat. They gave me a "window" seat in front of the exit row, so the seat did not decline. I weigh all of 103 #s and it was tight for me! For what I paid, I feel I was kind of ripped off. I think they should have given me the empty comfort seat for the inconvenience. There was no apology nor any explanation as to why the flight was cancelled. My guess is it benefitted Delta in some way.

Very smooth, on-time, and pleasantly uneventful flight. The team at the gate and on board were professional and genuinely courteous. The pilot kept us well updated throughout, and both takeoff and landing were steady and enjoyable without any drama. Just a good, solid flight. Thank you! 💗

Plenty of leg room, temperature was great and staff was excellent. Would do it more often.

I truly love flying with Delta. They have always treated me with the upmost respect

The aircraft interior is old and tired on this aircraft. The entertainment system never worked despite the crews attempt to reset the system.

The flight was great. The gate location was way to far away!!!

This route with Delta always has delays or is cancelled. Aircrafts seem smaller and older. I fly Delta quite a bit - haven’t had issues with the international flights. But this route has always been the troublesome one

I believe that a four-hour trip should have a meal. Delta had none.

Was charged for my luggage despite having been on one ticket from an international flight. Too tired to argue after 15 hours on flight. Was charged for rechecking it at JFK airport. Not sure why those off Kenya Airways were required to do that.

Flight was canceled, and no effort was made to help with rebooking, no hotel vouchers, no car transportation and minimal food voucher and most places for food were closed by the time the voucher was given. Waited for 3 hours for bags. Simply the worst travel experience I have ever had

Flight was delayed 8 times. We were sitting at the airport for 14 hours. We got 2 hours of sleep (if that) on what was not meant to be a red-eye.

Flight and crew were great. United didn't inform crew of immigration process which was disappointing!

Plane boarded early a quickly, was mostly full. We left close to on time. And landed early.

Friendly and professional flight crew. Aside from departure delay after boarding, easy flight and smooth landing.

Flight was timely, relatively comfortable, with decent entertainment and food served. Only problem encountered was with the free messaging which I highly appreciate, but it did not work from iphone to non-iphones.

Food was poorly timed and not good.. Hand held snacks, really. I kept asking for water and never got any. Service was rushed for a 7-hour flight.

Boarding was organized. Old plane. Seat fairly comfortable. Business Class much too large so you don’t receive as much attention as you should considering what you pay for the seat.

I had no checked baggage but was required to hand over carry on baggage at the door of the plane. There was a lot of overboard space in the plane and I was one of the last ones. I ran to get my carry on but it was gone. I was given back at the plane door in Toronto, so the wait was not as long as it would have been at the carousel.

This flight was perfect. No complaints and only the highest regard for the crew and ground staff and how they executed perfectly. I fly a lot with United and would request predictability and transparency in their operations instead of last minute changes.

The food should improve! And The flight should leave on time and not make the traveler wait.

Unfortunately I had an awful boarding experience. Our first flight with Aeromexico was fine and landed on time however it couldn’t find a gate and we were late which made us lose our connecting flight with Aeromexico. The staff handled it horribly when we explained our situation and would not led us board when we missed the boarding time by a couple minutes. The staff were extremely rude and did not attempt to even help us. Because of this incident, my husband and I missed a full day of work which negatively impacted our salary which we need. Please compensate us for the work that we missed.

It was OK. The flight is pretty long for the airlines to only offer a simple sandwich on business class. The entertainment is similar to that on other Skyteam members. Ultimately the airline lost my bag and didn’t deliver it to me until the next day after a lengthy lost baggage report.

Aeroméxico cancelled my ticket without advice AND It make a last minute mess in my intinerary, no solving my situation, bad advice and bad customer service

The ground staff were not as friendly and nice to the passengers as the air crew. Flight attendants, cockpit crew were great and very nice to everyone on board.

My flight was delayed, then I got transferred to a new flight that was also delayed- which wasn’t Aeromexico’s fault, it was because of weather conditions. Most of the crew was very nice and patient, except for one or two flight attendants who were rude. The entertainment wasn’t on, so all the screens were off.

My wife's entertainment system did not work. Payed for flight upgrade but did not receive advertised "free WiFi".

Annoying that we had to go to departures and get boarding passes. Should allow us to be booked all the way through, this is the only airline i have this problem with in MEX. Late boarding and take off

Lousy No wheelchair. As normal at Atlanta Cheap airline Cheap aero plane. - Neither entertainment nor food on a 5 hour saga

The airplane was an old airplane, seats were very uncomfortable and very little space, they changed my seat and that was no option to get back into my seat even when I was traveling a senior who required assistance.

This is not a low cost airline. Stop acting like o e.

Baggage handling poor. Second time this has happened. My bag went to San Francisco instead of Fiji. No apology. Luckily Nadi airport staff are fantastic. My bag arrived in Fiji the next day.

Disliked having to wait a little longer to disembark from the plan when we landed in London

Food should be better quality. Video screens have poor resolution and the library of movies is poor. The other airlines are much better.

They only offered water for Group 6. Awful announcements from the Crew. Couldn't understand a single word. Barely came by for the trash afterwards. Man, I love water for a premium flight. Wow. Water in a cup.

Great. Quick and quiet and east. The breakfast choices were a welcome surprise!

We arrived 4 hours early and still almost missed the flight because they weren’t able to access one of the boarding tickets. They then sent hour bags late and we were all of our without clothing and eventually had to take an expensive cab back and forth to the airport as they wouldn’t deliver the bag which arrived late at night that day and we would have to wait until noon the began day (messing up a second day of plans). Also, all the food has dairy or pork. No vegan or even vegetarian option in the flight—even for purchase.

The comfort of the seats was great, the crew eased my child’s anxieties and the fact that I had full cans of my beverage choice was great.

Pathetic check in experience at JFK. Everything is self check in. Not enough staff present to help with when the check in process or the kiosk gets stuck. Staff present not welcoming or pleasant at all. On the other hand the NY based flight crew was great. Courteous and friendly throughout the flight. Special meals leave a lot to be desired. Kids meals should be made available when kids are flying and same goes for special kids meals too.

Waited on the runway for takeoff for 2.5 hours. Air traffic rerouted us. The plane didn't have enough fuel, so had to go back to the gate. Had to wait for a new pilot. Should have landed at 5:22. Didn't land until 9:10. Trash flight.

There were five broken seats on the plane. The crew was very rude in telling people they had to get off the plane and get a flight the next day. No call for volunteers, but telling people they had to get off. One woman was flying with her elderly mother and daughter and was told she had to leave or all three had to leave. Fortunately, a volunteer offered to stay. The situation was handled poorly.

Everything was great. I liked the text updates so that I never miss a gate change & I have all the latest info.

No internet on a flight over three hours in this age is criminal. Staff inattentive and dismissive

Worst flight experience ever flights canceled. JetBlue told us just did not even bother standing in line to come back in one and a half hours then without any information we had to go pick up all of our luggage and spend over $2000 in accommodation just to get home. JetBlue said that the next flight available for us to get home would be three days later. Absolutely absurd hasn’t offered to give us any compensation do not fly JetBlue horrible company. They said it was based on the weather and the weather is great in all locations that we would’ve been flying to total hoax. I think it’s a conspiracy theory.

flight was delayed for hours with no explanation. The plane was a very old aircraft.

The flight departed more than 1 hour late. Leg room is bigger than most airlines

Excellent. Although they used to greet me as a mosaic member and provide a free drink, early boarding helps me to keep coming back to JetBlue.

No music app working: no economy meal on five hour flight; hour on tarmac at the end waiting for a gate. Flight itself was smooth and easy.

Communication with the customer and stay is important. Staff off with a minor inconvenience but it worked out of course. Also this was a very old Mint Class plane. They snuck this one in on us. The updated aircraft are much better.

The flight itself was fine, but the boarding process was extremely frustrating. There is no one scanning boarding passes - passengers just scan themselves and enter the jetway. By the time my husband and I got on the plane and were halfway to our seats they determined there were too many bags on the plane and everything at that point needed to be checked. This created a lot of unnecessary chaos. They should have alerted people before getting on the plane that they would need to start checking bags instead of waiting until people were already on the plane.

In flight on demand didn't work at our seats. Only a single beverage/snack run.

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