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Alaska Airlines SFO to EWR on-time performance

Alaska Airlines nonstop flights from San Francisco to Newark · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
88%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.9%
5 flights
Avg arrival delay
7 min
58 min when late
Rank on route
#1 of 2
route average 77% on time

Key facts

  • Alaska Airlines flights on SFO to EWR arrived on time 88% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.9% were cancelled, and 4% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #1 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

50%75%100%July 2025: 67.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 77.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 98.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 86.0% on time, 1.7% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 87.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 83.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 92.3% on time, 7.1% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 100.0% on time, 8.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 89.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 92.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 88.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 70.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft39%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)32%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion29%
  • Extreme weather0%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on SFO to EWR

549 Alaska Airlines flights tracked on this route; 5 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.