Flight number record

AS 6

Alaska Airlines · Los Angeles to Washington

Route: LAX → DCA
Departs: 13:31
Flights: 363
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 6, check with Alaska Airlines.

AS 6 sits in the middle of the pack with a B+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

On time

75.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 358 completed flights

Avg delay

75 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.83%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

10.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 363 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When AS 6 flies

AS 6 flies LAX to DCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:31, used on 50 of 363 flights, with 12:47 (45 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 13:3150 flights13.8%
Departs 12:4745 flights12.4%

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 13:31 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AS 6 runs 3 points worse at 75.7%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

AS 6 next to LAX to DCA

Every carrier on LAX to DCA combined arrived on time 80.1% of the time across 1,457 flights, so AS 6 is 4 points behind it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight trails by 3 points.

AS 6 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 6thin sample	363	75.7%	75 min	0.83%	B+
All Alaska Airlines on LAX–DCAthin sample	364	75.5%	74 min	0.82%	B+
All carriers on LAX–DCA	1,457	80.1%	77 min	1.24%	B
Alaska Airlines, whole network	293,372	79.1%	52 min	1.28%	B

Across the year

AS 6 quarter by quarter

AS 6 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 83.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 69.2%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 91 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 flights69.2%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights79.1%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights71.3%
Apr–Jun 202690 flights83.1%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 6 did best on Saturday at 88.2% on time and worst on Wednesday at 62.7%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 26 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AS 6 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 56% of the 6,504 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.

National Airspace System
56%
Late-arriving aircraft
25%
Carrier
19%
Extreme weather
0%

56% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 3,659 minutes out of 6,504, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 6,504 delay minutes reported on AS 6.

Cancellations are rare at 0.83%, 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 2,311 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.

Every one of the 363 flights under AS 6 in the data flew LAX to DCA. 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. 363 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 6

For a booking, read AS 6 as 75.7% on time with 0.83% cancelled over 363 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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