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Alaska Airlines SFO to SEA on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
70%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
1.3%
36 flights
Avg arrival delay
18 min
54 min when late
Rank on route
#5 of 5
route average 73% on time

Key facts

  • Alaska Airlines flights on SFO to SEA arrived on time 70% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 1.3% were cancelled, and 7% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #5 of 5 airlines on this route, which averaged 73% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (53%).

On-time trend by month

40%70%100%July 2025: 56.5% on time, 3.9% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 62.4% on time, 1.5% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 73.2% on time, 1.2% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 64.4% on time, 2.2% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 76.5% on time, 1.0% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 67.3% on time, 0.9% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 83.1% on time, 1.5% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 90.2% on time, 0.5% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 87.2% on time, 3.9% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 61.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 58.1% on time, 1.4% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 59.2% on time, 0.8% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 62.6% on time, 1.1% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft53%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)24%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion22%
  • Extreme weather0%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on SFO to SEA

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

2,713 Alaska Airlines flights tracked on this route; 36 cancelled, 4 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.