Flight number record

AS 106

Alaska Airlines · Seattle to Fairbanks

Route: SEA → FAI
Departs: 12:00
Flights: 291
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 106, check with Alaska Airlines.

AS 106 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 about 40 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 291 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AS 106 runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 44 extra late arrivals.

On time

73.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 287 completed flights

Avg delay

40 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.03%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 291 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.

Schedule

When AS 106 flies

AS 106 is scheduled to leave Seattle (SEA) at 12:00 local time and reach Fairbanks (FAI) at 14:53. That slot held for 261 of the 291 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.

Departs 12:00261 flights89.7%

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 12:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AS 106 runs 6 points worse at 73.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

AS 106 next to SEA to FAI

Every carrier on SEA to FAI combined arrived on time 77.8% of the time across 2,321 flights, so AS 106 is 5 points behind it. Alaska flew 1,839 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.3% on time. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight trails by 6 points.

AS 106 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 106thin sample	291	73.2%	40 min	1.03%	C
All Alaska Airlines on SEA–FAI	1,839	77.3%	44 min	0.71%	B+
All carriers on SEA–FAI	2,321	77.8%	50 min	1.03%	B
Alaska Airlines, whole network	293,372	79.1%	52 min	1.28%	B

Across the year

AS 106 quarter by quarter

AS 106 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 76.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 64.4%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 97 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 flights64.4%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights73.3%
Jan–Mar 202688 flights76.7%
Apr–Jun 202621 flights—

Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 106 did best on Friday at 78.0% on time and worst on Thursday at 65.8%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AS 106 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 3,100 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
39%
Late-arriving aircraft
37%
National Airspace System
22%
Extreme weather
1%
Security
1%

37% 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 3,100 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 27 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 3,100 delay minutes reported on AS 106.

Cancellations sit at 1.03% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.34%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.1% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

At 1,533 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.

AS 106 is not only a SEA to FAI flight. It also flew FAI to SEA (257 flights, 77.3% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 291 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.

Other routes flown as AS 106
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
FAI to SEAthin sample	257	77.3%	54 min	0.78%	B+

What to do with this

Booking AS 106

For a booking, read AS 106 as 73.2% on time with 1.03% cancelled over 291 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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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