Flight number record

AS 568

Alaska Airlines · Seattle to New Orleans

Route: SEA → MSY
Departs: 09:19
Flights: 337
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 568, check with Alaska Airlines.

AS 568 lands a B+, 2 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 40 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 337 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

On time

79.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 333 completed flights

Avg delay

41 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.59%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 337 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 568 flies

AS 568 flies SEA to MSY without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:19, used on 50 of 337 flights, with 11:10 (36 flights) and 10:50 (34 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 09:1950 flights14.8%
Departs 11:1036 flights10.7%
Departs 10:5034 flights10.1%

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 09:19 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and AS 568 runs 5 points worse at 79.3%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

AS 568 next to SEA to MSY

Every carrier on SEA to MSY combined arrived on time 79.4% of the time across 627 flights, so AS 568 is about level with it. Alaska flew 622 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.3% on time. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, close to this flight's figure.

AS 568 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 568thin sample	337	79.3%	41 min	0.59%	B+
All Alaska Airlines on SEA–MSY	622	79.3%	39 min	0.32%	B+
All carriers on SEA–MSY	627	79.4%	39 min	0.32%	B+
Alaska Airlines, whole network	293,372	79.1%	52 min	1.28%	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 202592 flights76.7%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights72.8%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.7%
Apr–Jun 202663 flights90.5%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 568 did best on Tuesday at 85.7% on time and worst on Monday at 72.3%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AS 568 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 57% of the 2,845 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
57%
Late-arriving aircraft
24%
National Airspace System
20%

The largest share of delay minutes, 57%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,610 of the 2,845 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,845 delay minutes reported on AS 568.

Cancellations are rare at 0.59%, below the national 1.81% 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 3.9% 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.

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 79.3% on time with 0.59% cancelled over 337 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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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