Flight number record
AS 46
Alaska Airlines · Bethel to Anchorage
- Route
- BET → ANC
- Departs
- 20:29
- Flights
- 361
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 46, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 46 sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land roughly 40 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AS 46 runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 83 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 348 completed flights
Avg delay
42 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.60%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 361 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.
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Schedule
When AS 46 flies
AS 46 flies BET to ANC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:29, used on 178 of 361 flights, with 20:14 (42 flights) next.
- Departs 20:29178 flights49.3%
- Departs 20:1442 flights11.6%
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 20:29 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and AS 46 runs level with that at 69.0%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
AS 46 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 46 is 2 points behind it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.7%, which this flight trails by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS 46thin sample | 361 | 69.0% | 42 min | 3.60% | 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 46 quarter by quarter
AS 46 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 82.4% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 56.5%, a swing of 26 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 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights63.9%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights56.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights82.4%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights73.3%
Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AS 46 did best on Wednesday at 78.4% on time and worst on Monday at 59.6%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AS 46 runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 57 of the 108 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 17 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early59 flights17.0%
- Within 15 min181 flights52.0%
- 15–29 min late57 flights16.4%
- 30–59 min late34 flights9.8%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.4%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 348 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
27 of 126 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AS 46
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 December 2025, 3 hours 37 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 December 2025 | 3 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 December 2025 | 2 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 October 2025 | 2 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 June 2026 | 2 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 January 2026 | 2 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AS 46 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 4,478 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
- 8%Security
54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,478 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 4,478 delay minutes reported on AS 46.
Cancellations run at 3.60%, against 1.89% 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 46 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. 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 46
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AS 46: 3.60% of its 361 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs roughly 40 minutes, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
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.