Flight number record

AS 46

Alaska Airlines · Bethel to Anchorage

Route: BET → ANC
Departs: 20:29
Flights: 361
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about 45 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AS 46 runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 87 extra late arrivals.

On time

68.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 347 completed flights

Avg delay

44 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.88%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

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 137 of 361 flights, with 19:59 (71 flights) and 19:56 (45 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 20:29137 flights38.0%
Departs 19:5971 flights19.7%
Departs 19:5645 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 20:29 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and AS 46 runs level with that at 68.9%. 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 46 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 46 is 2 points behind it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight trails by 10 points.

AS 46 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 46thin sample	361	68.9%	44 min	3.88%	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 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 202591 flights71.6%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights63.9%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights56.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights82.4%

Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 46 did best on Wednesday at 76.5% on time and worst on Monday at 56.9%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AS 46 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 57% of the 4,794 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
57%
Carrier
18%
National Airspace System
10%
Security
8%
Extreme weather
7%

57% 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 4,794 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 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 4,794 delay minutes reported on AS 46.

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

6.1% 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 about 45 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

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: 3.88% of its 361 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 45 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