Flight number record

AS 45

Alaska Airlines · Anchorage to Bethel

Route: ANC → BET
Departs: 17:49
Flights: 361
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 45, check with Alaska Airlines.

AS 45 lands a B−, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

On time

80.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 347 completed flights

Avg delay

48 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.88%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 45 flies

AS 45 flies ANC to BET without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:49, used on 49 of 361 flights, with 17:42 (45 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 17:4949 flights13.6%
Departs 17:4245 flights12.5%

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 17:49 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and AS 45 runs 12 points better at 80.4%. 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 45 next to ANC to BET

Every carrier on ANC to BET combined arrived on time 82.4% of the time across 723 flights, so AS 45 is 2 points behind it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, close to this flight's figure.

AS 45 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 45thin sample	361	80.4%	48 min	3.88%	B−
All Alaska Airlines on ANC–BET	723	82.4%	52 min	3.46%	B−
All carriers on ANC–BET	723	82.4%	52 min	3.46%	B−
Alaska Airlines, whole network	293,372	79.1%	52 min	1.28%	B

Across the year

AS 45 quarter by quarter

AS 45 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 85.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 75.3%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 90 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 202591 flights79.5%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights80.7%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights75.3%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.7%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 45 did best on Wednesday at 88.2% on time and worst on Tuesday at 76.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AS 45 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 45% of the 3,251 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.

Carrier
45%
Late-arriving aircraft
42%
Extreme weather
6%
National Airspace System
6%
Security
1%

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 3,251 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 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 3,251 delay minutes reported on AS 45.

Cancellations run at 3.88%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.3% 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.

Every one of the 361 flights under AS 45 in the data flew ANC to BET. 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. 361 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 45

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AS 45: 3.88% of its 361 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs roughly 50 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.

Key figures