Flight number record
AS 268
Alaska Airlines · Anchorage to Seattle
- Route
- ANC → SEA
- Departs
- 05:05
- Flights
- 271
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 268, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 268 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 45 minutes. That rests on 271 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AS 268's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 98 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 269 completed flights
Avg delay
45 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.74%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
2.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 271 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 268 flies
AS 268 flies ANC to SEA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:05, used on 57 of 271 flights, with 06:00 (55 flights) and 19:25 (42 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 05:0557 flights21.0%
- Departs 06:0055 flights20.3%
- Departs 19:2542 flights15.5%
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 05:05 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AS 268 runs level with that at 87.4%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
AS 268 next to ANC to SEA
Every carrier on ANC to SEA combined arrived on time 85.5% of the time across 6,681 flights, so AS 268 is 2 points ahead of it. Alaska flew 4,926 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.7% on time. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS 268thin sample | 271 | 87.4% | 45 min | 0.74% | A+ |
| All Alaska Airlines on ANC–SEA | 4,926 | 85.7% | 52 min | 1.24% | A |
| All carriers on ANC–SEA | 6,681 | 85.5% | 64 min | 1.12% | A |
| Alaska Airlines, whole network | 293,372 | 79.1% | 52 min | 1.28% | B |
Across the year
AS 268 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AS 268 held fairly steady: 82.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 91.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 91.0% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 82.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202583 flights82.7%
- Oct–Dec 202560 flights91.7%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights91.0%
- Apr–Jun 202639 flights82.1%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AS 268 ranged from 85.0% on Sunday to 90.6% on Monday. With about 39 flights behind each day, a spread of 6 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why AS 268 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 59% of the 1,544 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.
- 59%Carrier
- 24%National Airspace System
- 16%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 59%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 907 of the 1,544 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,544 delay minutes reported on AS 268.
Cancellations are rare at 0.74%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.6% 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.
The 1,448 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including PDX to SNA (28) and ANC to FAI (1), but none flew often enough under AS 268 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ANC to SEA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 271 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 268
For a booking, AS 268 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.4% on time and 0.74% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- ANC to SEA, every carrier and departure
- SEA to ANC, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 922 on the same route88.6%
- Delta Air Lines 853 on the same route89.8%
- Delta Air Lines 925 on the same route91.6%
- Alaska Airlines 47 on the same route80.1%
- Alaska Airlines 82 on the same route83.9%
- Alaska Airlines 48 on the same route87.9%
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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.