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Alaska Airlines RDU to SEA on-time performance

Alaska Airlines nonstop flights from Raleigh/Durham to Seattle · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
74%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
1.6%
9 flights
Avg arrival delay
14 min
48 min when late
Rank on route
#2 of 2
route average 77% on time

Key facts

  • Alaska Airlines flights on RDU to SEA arrived on time 74% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 1.6% were cancelled, and 5% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #2 of 2 airlines on this route, which averaged 77% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (39%).

On-time trend by month

30%65%100%July 2025: 59.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 64.8% on time, 5.3% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 91.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 81.8% on time, 2.9% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 80.6% on time, 2.7% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 40.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 76.5% on time, 5.6% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 77.8% on time, 3.6% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 61.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 88.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 68.9% on time, 1.6% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 71.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 82.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft39%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion30%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)28%
  • Security1%
  • Extreme weather1%

Other airlines on RDU to SEA

554 Alaska Airlines flights tracked on this route; 9 cancelled, 2 diverted.

Data: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 (12 months). Latest month published by BTS: July 2026. How we calculate this.