Flight number record
AS 696
Alaska Airlines · Seattle to Los Angeles
- Route
- SEA → LAX
- Departs
- 13:38
- Flights
- 277
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 696, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 696 lands a B, 2 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 roughly 35 minutes on average. That rests on 277 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
79.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 272 completed flights
Avg delay
37 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.81%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 277 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 2 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 696 flies
AS 696 flies SEA to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:38, used on 70 of 277 flights, with 11:25 (35 flights) and 12:50 (33 flights) next.
- Departs 13:3870 flights25.3%
- Departs 11:2535 flights12.6%
- Departs 12:5033 flights11.9%
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 13:38 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and AS 696 runs level with that at 79.0%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
AS 696 next to SEA to LAX
Every carrier on SEA to LAX combined arrived on time 82.0% of the time across 7,536 flights, so AS 696 is 3 points behind it. Alaska flew 3,293 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.4% 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 696thin sample | 277 | 79.0% | 37 min | 1.81% | B |
| All Alaska Airlines on SEA–LAX | 3,293 | 80.4% | 42 min | 0.91% | B+ |
| All carriers on SEA–LAX | 7,536 | 82.0% | 59 min | 0.81% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines, whole network | 309,844 | 79.7% | 52 min | 1.20% | B |
Across the year
AS 696 quarter by quarter
AS 696 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 88.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 64.5%, a swing of 24 points on roughly 69 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.
- Oct–Dec 202563 flights64.5%
- Jan–Mar 202681 flights87.2%
- Apr–Jun 202671 flights88.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights72.1%
Scale runs 55% to 95%.
By weekday, AS 696 did best on Sunday at 86.7% on time and worst on Saturday at 71.1%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AS 696 runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 32 of the 57 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 10 reached an hour or more. Not one arrived two hours late.
- 15+ min early64 flights23.5%
- Within 15 min151 flights55.5%
- 15–29 min late32 flights11.8%
- 30–59 min late15 flights5.5%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights3.7%
- 2+ hours late0 flights0.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 272 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
19 of 64 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 30% of them. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AS 696
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 November 2025, 1 hour 39 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across November, August, January and July, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 November 2025 | 1 hour 39 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 August 2026 | 1 hour 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 January 2026 | 1 hour 20 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 16 July 2026 | 1 hour 20 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 21 August 2026 | 1 hour 20 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AS 696 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 2,110 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 28%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,110 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 44 to one. The split is drawn from 2,110 delay minutes reported on AS 696.
Cancellations sit at 1.81% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.7% 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.
The 954 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.
Every one of the 277 flights under AS 696 in the data flew SEA to LAX. 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. 277 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 696
For a booking, read AS 696 as 79.0% on time with 1.81% cancelled over 277 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- SEA to LAX, every carrier and departure
- LAX to SEA, the return direction
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- Delta Air Lines 2861 on the same route74.2%
- Delta Air Lines 1628 on the same route90.6%
- Delta Air Lines 2830 on the same route83.8%
- Alaska Airlines 505 on the same route82.8%
- Delta Air Lines 2914 on the same route84.0%
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.