Eat your heart out, United!

A Delta flight that was heading to Puerto Rico from JFK Airport on Wednesday managed to outrun Hurricane Irma — flying directly into the path of the Category 5 storm as it was bearing down on the island — before landing and taking off within the span of an hour.

The Boeing 737 was reportedly full of passengers after leaving the Big Apple at 8:12 a.m., according to FlightAware.

The online tracking system showed Flight 431 arriving in San Juan at 12:01 p.m. — just as Irma was making landfall.

Images posted on Twitter depicted a surreal scene, with the plane appearing to fly straight into the arms of the hurricane.

“Where others have turned back, Delta #DL431 presses on,” tweeted Flightradar24, an account that tracks live air traffic.

With no time to spare, the pilots quickly took care of business on the ground and got the plane back in the air by 12:41 p.m., FlightAware reported.

The flight later returned home to New York with its 173 passengers at 4:22 p.m.

Jason Rabinowitz, a self-described aviation geek, was one of countless people who tweeted the flight’s trajectory in real time Wednesday.

Several pictures that he posted showed the plane ascending from San Juan’s Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport — flying between the “outer band” of Irma and the “core” of the storm.

“Amazing stuff,” Rabinowitz said.

He added that a number of flights had attempted to “squeak” into San Juan before air traffic control ceased operations, but only Flight 431 was able to make it in time.

“This Delta flight was the last both in and out of SJU,” Rabinowitz said.

While the move appeared gutsy, Delta officials later downplayed the incident — saying its staff was “armed with the latest forecast from the airline’s meteorology team.”

“Our meteorology team is the best in the business,” explained Erik Snell, vice president for Delta operations and customer center.

“They took a hard look at the weather data and the track of the storm and worked with the flight crew and dispatcher to agree it was safe to operate the flight,” he said. “And our flight and ground crews were incredible in their effort to turn the aircraft quickly and safely so the flight could depart well before the hurricane threat.”