Flight number record
AS 44
Alaska Airlines · Bethel to Anchorage
- Route
- BET → ANC
- Departs
- 13:10
- Flights
- 348
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 44, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 44 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 348 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AS 44 runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 51 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 338 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.87%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 348 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AS 44 flies
AS 44 flies BET to ANC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:10, used on 88 of 348 flights, with 12:48 (36 flights) and 12:08 (35 flights) next.
- Departs 13:1088 flights25.3%
- Departs 12:4836 flights10.3%
- Departs 12:0835 flights10.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 13:10 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and AS 44 runs 6 points worse at 72.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
AS 44 next to BET to ANC
Every carrier on BET to ANC combined arrived on time 70.9% of the time across 723 flights, so AS 44 is about level with it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.7%, which this flight trails by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS 44thin sample | 348 | 72.2% | 55 min | 2.87% | C |
| All Alaska Airlines on BET–ANC | 723 | 70.9% | 48 min | 3.18% | C− |
| All carriers on BET–ANC | 723 | 70.9% | 48 min | 3.18% | C− |
| Alaska Airlines, whole network | 309,844 | 79.7% | 52 min | 1.20% | B |
Across the year
AS 44 quarter by quarter
AS 44 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 83.5% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 64.5%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 87 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 202526 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202580 flights64.5%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights66.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights68.9%
Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AS 44 did best on Saturday at 84.6% on time and worst on Monday at 64.0%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AS 44 runs when it is late
The 94 late arrivals split 37 under half an hour, 30 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 27 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early74 flights21.9%
- Within 15 min170 flights50.3%
- 15–29 min late37 flights10.9%
- 30–59 min late30 flights8.9%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights5.0%
- 2+ hours late10 flights3.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 338 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
18 of 98 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 14 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AS 44
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 July 2026, 4 hours 15 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 July 2026 | 4 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 January 2026 | 4 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 February 2026 | 3 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 March 2026 | 3 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 February 2026 | 2 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AS 44 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 5,178 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 7%Security
- 6%Extreme weather
56% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,178 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 5,178 delay minutes reported on AS 44.
Cancellations run at 2.87%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
Every one of the 348 flights under AS 44 in the data flew BET 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. 348 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 44
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AS 44: 2.87% of its 348 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
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Where to go next
- BET to ANC, every carrier and departure
- ANC to BET, the return direction
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.