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Alaska Airlines SEA to SBA on-time performance

Alaska Airlines nonstop flights from Seattle to Santa Barbara · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
82%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.9%
3 flights
Avg arrival delay
11 min
53 min when late
Rank on route
#2 of 2
route average 82% on time

Key facts

  • Alaska Airlines flights on SEA to SBA arrived on time 82% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.9% were cancelled, and 4% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #2 of 2 airlines on this route, which averaged 82% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (45%).

On-time trend by month

30%65%100%July 2025: 44.8% on time, 3.3% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 72.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 84.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 80.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 86.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 79.3% on time, 3.3% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 80.0% on time, 3.2% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 85.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 80.0% on time, 3.2% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 90.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 91.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 88.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 66.7% 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 aircraft45%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)44%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion10%
  • Extreme weather1%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on SEA to SBA

344 Alaska Airlines flights tracked on this route; 3 cancelled, 1 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.