Flight number record

AS 44

Alaska Airlines · Bethel to Anchorage

Route: BET → ANC
Departs: 13:10
Flights: 346
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land roughly 55 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 346 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AS 44 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 60 extra late arrivals.

On time

71.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 335 completed flights

Avg delay

53 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.18%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

8.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 346 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

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 56 of 346 flights, with 13:11 (50 flights) and 12:48 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 13:1056 flights16.2%
Departs 13:1150 flights14.5%
Departs 12:4836 flights10.4%

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 13:10 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AS 44 runs 7 points worse at 71.6%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

AS 44 next to BET to ANC

Every carrier on BET to ANC combined arrived on time 70.6% of the time across 723 flights, so AS 44 is about level with it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight trails by 8 points.

AS 44 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 44thin sample	346	71.6%	53 min	3.18%	C−
All Alaska Airlines on BET–ANC	723	70.6%	48 min	3.46%	C−
All carriers on BET–ANC	723	70.6%	48 min	3.46%	C−
Alaska Airlines, whole network	293,372	79.1%	52 min	1.28%	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 202586 flights70.2%
Oct–Dec 202580 flights64.5%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights66.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.5%

Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 44 did best on Saturday at 86.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 66.0%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AS 44 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 5,004 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
56%
Carrier
21%
National Airspace System
11%
Extreme weather
6%
Security
6%

56% 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 5,004 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 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 5,004 delay minutes reported on AS 44.

Cancellations run at 3.18%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about 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

8.1% 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 346 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. 346 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: 3.18% of its 346 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs roughly 55 minutes, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

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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