Transatlantic route · frequency, carriers and airport records
FCO→SEA
Rome to Seattle
- Flights
- 190 both ways
- Carriers
- 2
- Distance
- 5,673 mi
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
No public record scores Rome Fiumicino to Seattle-Tacoma International flight by flight. The US Department of Transportation's on-time database covers domestic flights only, and in Europe only the United Kingdom publishes punctuality by route, so what follows is built from the three measurements that do exist. The DOT's international report counts 190 flights between the two airports in the twelve months to June 2026, about two departures a week in each direction, flown by Alaska and Delta. EUROCONTROL's year-to-date figure has 64.0% of all departures from Rome Fiumicino leaving within 15 minutes of schedule and 76.0% of arrivals landing within 15 minutes. At the other end, 79.5% of SEA's domestic departures arrived on time in the DOT data, which says something about how the airport itself runs, not about this route.
On EUROCONTROL's year-to-date arrival punctuality, Rome Fiumicino ranks 27th of the 41 European airports on this site with service to the United States. Bilbao leads that table at 84.3% and Manchester closes it at 65.7%. A long-haul departure inherits the airport's morning: an aircraft that arrived late from its previous sector, or a departure queue built up by weather, delays the transatlantic wave with everything else.
Key figures
Flights
190
Both directions, July 2025 to June 2026 (DOT)
Carriers
2
Alaska Airlines, Delta Air Lines
FCO departures on time
64.0%
All destinations, year to date (EUROCONTROL)
SEA domestic on time
79.5%
US DOT, last twelve months of domestic departures
Without a route-level record, the useful question is what the two airports do to a schedule. EUROCONTROL attributes 0.1 minutes of air traffic flow management delay per arriving flight to Rome Fiumicino so far this year; that is delay imposed by the network to hold traffic on the ground elsewhere, not the airline's own. In the DOT data, a delayed domestic departure from SEA ran about an hour late on average over the last twelve months, and 0.93% of its scheduled flights were cancelled.
Carrier by carrier
Who flies FCO to SEA
Alaska Airlines flew 67% of the 190 flights between FCO and SEA in the DOT's count, with Delta Air Lines on 63. Loads averaged 203 passengers a flight, which on this route means wide-body aircraft nearly full.
| Airline | Flights | Share | Per month | Passengers / flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Airlines | 127 | 67% | 11 | 200 |
| Delta Air Lines | 63 | 33% | 5 | 209 |
DOT international report, July 2025 to June 2026; flights in both directions together. No delay figures exist for this pair in any public source.
Across the year
How often FCO to SEA flies through the year
The DOT's international report puts 94 flights on the pair in June 2026, the busiest month of the window, and 0 in March 2026, the thinnest. A summer-to-winter swing of that size means the winter schedule is a different operation: fewer frequencies, so a cancellation leaves a longer wait for the next seat.
Flights per month, both directions
- July 20250
- August 20250
- September 20250
- October 20250
- November 20250
- December 20250
- January 20260
- February 20260
- March 20260
- April 20265
- May 202691
- June 202694
The DOT's international report counts flights in both directions together: 190 between FCO and SEA from July 2025 to June 2026, about two departures a week in each direction, carrying 38,625 passengers. That makes it the 16th busiest of 16 US routes from Rome Fiumicino and the 8th busiest of 9 European routes into SEA.
The departure airport
How Rome Fiumicino is running
EUROCONTROL's figures for Rome Fiumicino as a whole, every airline and every destination: 64.0% of departures and 76.0% of arrivals within 15 minutes of schedule from 1 January to 21 October 2026, with 96.8% of scheduled flights operated. The last seven days ran at 49.8% for departures, 14 points worse than the year so far. Air traffic flow management delay attributed to the airport averaged 0.1 minutes per arriving flight this year, 0.1 over the last week.
| Window | Departures on time | Arrivals on time | Schedules operated | ATFM delay / arrival |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yesterday (21 October 2026) | 59.6% | 72.4% | 96.4% | 0.0 min |
| Last 7 days | 49.8% | 63.5% | 96.2% | 0.1 min |
| Year to date | 64.0% | 76.0% | 96.8% | 0.1 min |
Every US route from Rome Fiumicino, and its full punctuality record
The arrival airport
Landing at Seattle-Tacoma International
Seattle-Tacoma International is scored on this site from the DOT's domestic data: 79.5% of its 164,759 domestic departures arrived on time over the last twelve months, with delayed flights running about an hour late, and 0.93% were cancelled. Those are domestic flights, not this route, but an arriving transatlantic flight shares the same runways, the same weather and the same ground delay programmes, so a bad day at SEA reaches a flight from FCO just as surely. The airport's own page has the hour-by-hour and month-by-month detail, and its live FAA status appears above when the FAA has something to say.
Domestic on time
79.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late (DOT)
Avg delay
57 min
Delayed domestic flights only
Cancelled
0.93%
Domestic departures
164,759
Last twelve months
Seattle-Tacoma International (SEA) delay statistics, hour by hour and month by month
Your rights
EC 261/2004 on FCO to SEA
Every flight that departs Rome Fiumicino falls under Regulation (EC) 261/2004, whichever airline flies it and wherever it lands. If it arrives at Seattle-Tacoma International three hours or more late, or is cancelled with under 14 days' notice, and the cause was within the airline's control, each passenger is owed €600 (€300 if the airline got you there under four hours late), on top of rebooking and care. Weather, air traffic control restrictions and strikes outside the airline are the usual exemptions. The return flight from SEA is covered only when the carrier is EU based. The sector is about 5,673 miles, 9,128 km, which puts it in the top distance band.
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What to do with this
Booking FCO to SEA
There is no grade to give FCO to SEA without a route record, and this site does not invent one. What the three sources support: about two departures a week in each direction, a choice of two carriers, a departure airport that gets 64% of its departures away on time and an arrival airport that runs 80% on time domestically. Leave two hours for any onward connection at SEA; immigration comes before the connecting flight.
Common questions
FCO to SEA questions
How often are FCO to SEA flights delayed?
No public dataset records delays for this route flight by flight: the US on-time database is domestic only and only the UK publishes route-level punctuality in Europe. The nearest measurements are the departure airport's EUROCONTROL punctuality (64.0% of departures within 15 minutes this year) and SEA's domestic record in the DOT data (79.5% on time).
Which airlines fly FCO to SEA?
Alaska Airlines and Delta Air Lines, in order of flights operated between July 2025 and June 2026. Alaska Airlines accounted for 67% of the 190 flights the DOT counted on the pair.
Can I claim compensation for a delayed FCO to SEA flight?
Yes, if the flight arrived three hours or more late or was cancelled at short notice for a reason within the airline's control: departures from Rome Fiumicino are covered by EC 261/2004 whichever airline operates them. The fixed amount for a sector of this length is €600 a passenger, €300 if the airline got you there under four hours late. The return from SEA is covered only on an EU carrier.
How many flights a day are there from FCO to SEA?
About two departures a week in each direction: the DOT counted 190 flights in both directions over twelve months, peaking at 94 in June 2026 and falling to 0 in March 2026.
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Where to go next
- Rome Fiumicino (FCO): every US route
- Seattle-Tacoma International (SEA) delay statistics
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- Every Europe-to-US route and airport
Italy publishes no route-level punctuality, so this page cannot grade the route. The UK pages in this section can, because the CAA does.
Sources: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, International Report (flights and passengers by carrier and airport pair), July 2025 to June 2026; EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Portal, airport punctuality and ATFM delay to 21 October 2026. Rebuilt 22 October 2026; the EUROCONTROL figures refresh with each weekly build, the others when their publisher releases a month. How these sources differ.