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Alaska Airlines SFO to IAD on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
49%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.0%
0 flights
Avg arrival delay
22 min
41 min when late
Rank on route
#2 of 2
route average 84% on time

Key facts

  • Alaska Airlines flights on SFO to IAD arrived on time 49% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0% were cancelled, and 11% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #2 of 2 airlines on this route, which averaged 84% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (60%).

On-time trend by month

30%65%100%July 2025: 45.0% on time, 1.6% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 48.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft60%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion30%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)6%
  • Security2%
  • Extreme weather2%

Other airlines on SFO to IAD

37 Alaska Airlines flights tracked on this route; 0 cancelled, 0 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.