Flight number record

AS 22

Alaska Airlines · Seattle to New York

Route: SEA → JFK
Departs: 22:41
Flights: 316
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 22, check with Alaska Airlines.

AS 22 sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land roughly 35 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 316 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

On time

75.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 310 completed flights

Avg delay

37 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.27%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 316 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 22 flies

AS 22 flies SEA to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:41, used on 83 of 316 flights, with 22:53 (50 flights) and 23:34 (45 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 22:4183 flights26.3%
Departs 22:5350 flights15.8%
Departs 23:3445 flights14.2%

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 22:41 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and AS 22 runs 5 points better at 75.5%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

AS 22 next to SEA to JFK

Every carrier on SEA to JFK combined arrived on time 75.3% of the time across 2,906 flights, so AS 22 is about level with it. Alaska flew 1,403 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 71.6% on time. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight trails by 4 points.

AS 22 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 22thin sample	316	75.5%	37 min	1.27%	B
All Alaska Airlines on SEA–JFK	1,403	71.6%	54 min	2.57%	C
All carriers on SEA–JFK	2,906	75.3%	62 min	2.41%	B
Alaska Airlines, whole network	293,372	79.1%	52 min	1.28%	B

Across the year

AS 22 quarter by quarter

AS 22 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 86.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 54.4%, a swing of 32 points on roughly 79 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 flights54.4%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights86.4%
Jan–Mar 202648 flights80.9%
Apr–Jun 202685 flights83.5%

Scale runs 45% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 22 ranged from 70.2% on Wednesday to 78.6% on Tuesday. With about 45 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why AS 22 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 2,771 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
42%
National Airspace System
31%
Carrier
27%
Security
0%

42% 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 2,771 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 42 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 2,771 delay minutes reported on AS 22.

Cancellations sit at 1.27% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.63%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.5% 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 2,422 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.

Every one of the 316 flights under AS 22 in the data flew SEA to JFK. 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. 316 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 22

For a booking, read AS 22 as 75.5% on time with 1.27% cancelled over 316 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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