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Alaska Airlines SFO to LAX on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
68%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.7%
6 flights
Avg arrival delay
17 min
48 min when late
Rank on route
#6 of 8
route average 73% on time

Key facts

  • Alaska Airlines flights on SFO to LAX arrived on time 68% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.7% were cancelled, and 7% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #6 of 8 airlines on this route, which averaged 73% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (63%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%November 2025: 88.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 84.6% on time, 7.1% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 87.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 90.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 84.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 70.3% on time, 1.2% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 65.2% on time, 1.1% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 60.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 61.9% on time, 0.6% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft63%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion22%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)15%
  • Extreme weather0%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on SFO to LAX

Full SFO to LAX comparison →
Alaska Airlines on-time record across all routes →

862 Alaska Airlines flights tracked on this route; 6 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.