Sorting lists of complex elements

In researching the best ways of sorting flight tickets displayed to end users in the DOM I did some research to compare to scenarios: Given that a list of items exists on the dom (and is recreate-able in JavaScript):

• Sort the items in JavaScript and re-render the entire list
• Extract the dom items using jQuery, sort them, and re-append them to the dom

Surprisingly the jQuery way wins consistently (even on iPad). You can see the result at https://jsfiddle.net/geho17vt/8/