Alaska Airlines (ASA) on-time performance, October 2026
6,936 scheduled Alaska Airlines departures in US airspace in October 2026, 75.2% of them on time. Measured from FAA departure data, updated every morning.
On time, day by day
Share of Alaska Airlines departures within 15 minutes of schedule, by day. Light bars show each day's departures for context. Worst day: Saturday 3 October at 65.6%. Best: Wednesday 7 October at 83.7%.
Airports, ranked by on-time share
Airports with at least 30 Alaska Airlines departures in the month.
| Airport | Departures | On time | 45+ min late | Avg delay (min) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DCA Washington | 40 | 95.0% | 5.0% | -0.6 |
| EWR Newark | 46 | 91.3% | 0.0% | 1.1 |
| IAH Houston | 31 | 90.3% | 0.0% | -3.9 |
| CVG Cincinnati | 33 | 87.9% | 6.1% | 1.9 |
| FAI Fairbanks | 65 | 87.7% | 4.6% | 3.8 |
| ONT Ontario | 48 | 87.5% | 0.0% | -0.3 |
| ANC Anchorage | 308 | 86.4% | 4.9% | 2.4 |
| PHX Phoenix | 111 | 84.7% | 3.6% | 1.9 |
| SNA Santa Ana | 89 | 84.3% | 7.9% | 1.5 |
| BUR Burbank | 53 | 83.0% | 7.5% | 9.6 |
| AUS Austin | 35 | 82.9% | 11.4% | 9.0 |
| ORD Chicago | 58 | 82.8% | 3.4% | 0.9 |
| JFK New York | 82 | 81.7% | 6.1% | 6.0 |
| JNU Juneau | 98 | 81.6% | 8.2% | 9.9 |
| DEN Denver | 57 | 80.7% | 5.3% | 5.6 |
| GEG Spokane | 60 | 80.0% | 3.3% | 6.2 |
| LAX Los Angeles | 246 | 79.7% | 8.5% | 11.1 |
| SMF Sacramento | 97 | 79.4% | 7.2% | 4.4 |
| LAS Las Vegas | 151 | 77.5% | 13.2% | 16.8 |
| BOI Boise | 58 | 75.9% | 3.4% | 6.4 |
| SFO San Francisco | 253 | 75.5% | 11.5% | 11.4 |
| PDX Portland | 623 | 74.6% | 8.0% | 12.1 |
| SEA Seattle | 1,527 | 74.3% | 9.0% | 8.9 |
| KTN Ketchikan | 53 | 73.6% | 13.2% | 12.2 |
| OAK Oakland | 44 | 72.7% | 11.4% | 16.7 |
| LIH Lihue | 173 | 72.3% | 7.5% | 11.7 |
| SJC San Jose | 71 | 71.8% | 9.9% | 11.7 |
| OGG Kahului | 277 | 70.8% | 8.7% | 11.4 |
| SLC Salt Lake City | 34 | 70.6% | 5.9% | 12.7 |
| KOA Kona | 174 | 69.0% | 9.2% | 13.9 |
| DFW Dallas-Fort Worth | 55 | 67.3% | 16.4% | 12.6 |
| HNL Honolulu | 661 | 66.1% | 12.7% | 16.7 |
| SAN San Diego | 315 | 64.8% | 16.8% | 16.1 |
| ITO Hilo | 85 | 60.0% | 17.6% | 20.4 |
| MCO Orlando | 35 | 60.0% | 14.3% | 29.6 |
| BOS Boston | 48 | 58.3% | 25.0% | 22.1 |
Least punctual routes
Routes with at least 20 Alaska Airlines departures, lowest on-time share first.
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEA to GEG Seattle to Spokane | 36 | 50.0% | 16.0 |
| SEA to BOS Seattle to Boston | 26 | 50.0% | 32.4 |
| SFO to SAN San Francisco to San Diego | 25 | 52.0% | 18.6 |
| PDX to SAN Portland to San Diego | 39 | 56.4% | 24.0 |
| DFW to SEA Dallas-Fort Worth to Seattle | 30 | 56.7% | 20.6 |
| SEA to SFO Seattle to San Francisco | 58 | 56.9% | 18.3 |
| SEA to AUS Seattle to Austin | 21 | 57.1% | 17.7 |
| SEA to SAN Seattle to San Diego | 50 | 58.0% | 19.7 |
| HNL to LAX Honolulu to Los Angeles | 29 | 58.6% | 32.1 |
| ITO to HNL Hilo to Honolulu | 80 | 58.8% | 21.4 |
Busiest routes
The ten routes Alaska Airlines flew most this month.
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay |
|---|---|---|---|
| HNL to OGG Honolulu to Kahului | 133 | 77.4% | 8.6 |
| OGG to HNL Kahului to Honolulu | 129 | 73.6% | 8.8 |
| KOA to HNL Kona to Honolulu | 106 | 68.9% | 12.5 |
| HNL to KOA Honolulu to Kona | 105 | 73.3% | 10.0 |
| LIH to HNL Lihue to Honolulu | 103 | 76.7% | 11.6 |
| HNL to LIH Honolulu to Lihue | 101 | 72.3% | 12.0 |
| SEA to ANC Seattle to Anchorage | 97 | 80.4% | 3.9 |
| ANC to SEA Anchorage to Seattle | 96 | 88.5% | 3.0 |
| HNL to ITO Honolulu to Hilo | 80 | 63.8% | 16.9 |
| ITO to HNL Hilo to Honolulu | 80 | 58.8% | 21.4 |
Other months for Alaska Airlines
Airport pages for October 2026
How we measure
On time means the aircraft took off within 15 minutes of its scheduled departure, after subtracting the departure airport's normal taxi time (FAA SWIM reports wheels-off, not push-back, so the median taxi time of the last 30 days is taken off every flight first). Average delay is the mean of that taxi-adjusted delay over all departures; early departures count as negative minutes, so an operator that routinely leaves early can show a negative average. 45+ min late is the share of departures that left 45 minutes or more behind schedule, the point at which most connections are at risk.
Scope: scheduled airlines only, the same set as the monthly State of the Sky report (operators with published routes; private, fractional and charter operators are left out), so the two publications give the same numbers for the same month. Departures are counted by scheduled day (UTC). Each day's flights are rolled up overnight and published the next morning; the newest day keeps filling in for a day or two and is only shown once it is substantially complete. Figures can differ by a few tenths of a point from the State of the Sky report for the same month: that report is frozen on the 2nd of the following month, while these pages are rebuilt from the live rollup, which recomputes each airport's taxi baseline nightly and re-rolls the last week of the month as late departure times arrive (September 2026 at SFO: 16,398 departures in both, 69.2% on time here against 69.5% in the report).
Source: FAA System Wide Information Management (SWIM) flight plans and departure times, processed by PlaneTrack. Free to quote with credit to PlaneTrack (CC BY 4.0).
Data note: 3 October 2026 - FAA schedule rollup ran short after a database stall (about 17% of departures missing).