Flight number record
AS 65
Alaska Airlines · Seattle to Ketchikan
- Route
- SEA → KTN
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 360
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 65, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 65 earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 55 minutes. That rests on 360 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AS 65's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 83 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights
Avg delay
54 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
4.0%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 360 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 65 flies
AS 65 flies SEA to KTN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 231 of 360 flights, with 06:54 (45 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:00231 flights64.2%
- Departs 06:5445 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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AS 65 runs 3 points worse at 85.9%. 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 65 next to SEA to KTN
Every carrier on SEA to KTN combined arrived on time 76.9% of the time across 1,303 flights, so AS 65 is 9 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS 65thin sample | 360 | 85.9% | 54 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All Alaska Airlines on SEA–KTN | 1,303 | 76.9% | 57 min | 0.23% | B+ |
| All carriers on SEA–KTN | 1,303 | 76.9% | 57 min | 0.23% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines, whole network | 293,372 | 79.1% | 52 min | 1.28% | B |
Across the year
AS 65 quarter by quarter
AS 65 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 93.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 80.4%, a swing of 13 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 202592 flights80.4%
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights81.4%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights88.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights93.4%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AS 65 did best on Sunday at 92.2% on time and worst on Tuesday at 78.8%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AS 65 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 69% of the 2,693 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.
- 69%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
- 6%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 69%, 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 1,854 of the 2,693 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,693 delay minutes reported on AS 65.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are 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 4.0% 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.
The 680 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
AS 65 is not only a SEA to KTN flight. It also flew JNU to ANC (360 flights, 81.1% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 360 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JNU to ANCthin sample | 360 | 81.1% | 88 min | 2.50% | B |
What to do with this
Booking AS 65
For a booking, AS 65 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.9% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
- SEA to KTN, every carrier and departure
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.