Flight number record

AS 103

Alaska Airlines · Fairbanks to Anchorage

Route: FAI → ANC
Departs: 13:35
Flights: 251
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 103, check with Alaska Airlines.

AS 103 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land roughly 55 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 251 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AS 103 runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 40 extra late arrivals.

On time

73.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 250 completed flights

Avg delay

53 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.40%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 251 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 4 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Schedule

When AS 103 flies

AS 103 flies FAI to ANC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:35, used on 50 of 251 flights, with 13:42 (45 flights) and 17:00 (29 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 13:3550 flights19.9%
Departs 13:4245 flights17.9%
Departs 17:0029 flights11.6%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.

A 13:35 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AS 103 runs 5 points worse at 73.6%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

AS 103 next to FAI to ANC

Every carrier on FAI to ANC combined arrived on time 85.1% of the time across 1,388 flights, so AS 103 is 12 points behind it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight trails by 6 points.

AS 103 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 103thin sample	251	73.6%	53 min	0.40%	C+
All Alaska Airlines on FAI–ANC	1,388	85.1%	64 min	1.01%	A
All carriers on FAI–ANC	1,388	85.1%	64 min	1.01%	A
Alaska Airlines, whole network	293,372	79.1%	52 min	1.28%	B

Across the year

AS 103 quarter by quarter

AS 103 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 80.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 66.2%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 84 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights69.2%
Oct–Dec 202568 flights66.2%
Jan–Mar 202676 flights80.3%
Apr–Jun 202615 flights—

Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 103 did best on Sunday at 86.8% on time and worst on Tuesday at 68.4%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AS 103 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 75% of the 3,526 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Late-arriving aircraft
75%
National Airspace System
12%
Carrier
6%
Extreme weather
6%

75% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 3,526 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 3,526 delay minutes reported on AS 103.

Cancellations are rare at 0.40%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last roughly 55 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

Every one of the 251 flights under AS 103 in the data flew FAI to ANC. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 251 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

What to do with this

Booking AS 103

For a booking, AS 103 is one of the weaker ways to fly FAI to ANC: 12 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.

Where to go next

A flight number here means Alaska Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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