Flight number record
AS 568
Alaska Airlines · Seattle to New Orleans
- Route
- SEA → MSY
- Departs
- 09:37
- Flights
- 337
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 568, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 568 lands a B+, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 45 minutes on average. That rests on 337 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
80.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 333 completed flights
Avg delay
46 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.59%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 337 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When AS 568 flies
AS 568 flies SEA to MSY without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:37, used on 70 of 337 flights, with 11:10 (36 flights) and 10:50 (34 flights) next.
- Departs 09:3770 flights20.8%
- Departs 11:1036 flights10.7%
- Departs 10:5034 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 09:37 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and AS 568 runs 4 points worse at 80.2%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
AS 568 next to SEA to MSY
Every carrier on SEA to MSY combined arrived on time 81.6% of the time across 619 flights, so AS 568 is about level with it. Alaska flew 614 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.4% on time. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.7%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS 568thin sample | 337 | 80.2% | 46 min | 0.59% | B+ |
| All Alaska Airlines on SEA–MSY | 614 | 81.4% | 41 min | 0.33% | B+ |
| All carriers on SEA–MSY | 619 | 81.6% | 41 min | 0.32% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines, whole network | 309,844 | 79.7% | 52 min | 1.20% | B |
Across the year
AS 568 quarter by quarter
AS 568 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 90.5% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 72.8%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 84 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 202592 flights72.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.7%
- Apr–Jun 202663 flights90.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights75.8%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AS 568 ranged from 76.6% on Sunday to 87.2% on Thursday. With about 48 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AS 568 runs when it is late
AS 568 often beats the schedule: 94 of 333 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 66 late arrivals split 31 under half an hour, 19 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early94 flights28.2%
- Within 15 min173 flights52.0%
- 15–29 min late31 flights9.3%
- 30–59 min late19 flights5.7%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.6%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 333 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 91 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 32 still arrived on time. 7 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AS 568
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 November 2025, 2 hours 28 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 November 2025 | 2 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 November 2025 | 2 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 December 2025 | 2 hours 23 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 18 December 2025 | 2 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 21 July 2026 | 1 hour 56 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AS 568 runs late
Carrier accounts for 55% of the 3,006 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Carrier
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 55%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,661 of the 3,006 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,006 delay minutes reported on AS 568.
Cancellations are rare at 0.59%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.8% 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.
At 2,086 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including PIT to SEA (28), but none flew often enough under AS 568 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SEA to MSY only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 337 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 568
For a booking, read AS 568 as 80.2% on time with 0.59% cancelled over 337 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- Seattle-Tacoma International (SEA) delay statistics
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans International (MSY) delay statistics
- Alaska Airlines on-time record
- Every Alaska Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.