Flight number record
AS 699
Alaska Airlines · Seattle to Santa Ana
- Route
- SEA → SNA
- Departs
- 07:15
- Flights
- 302
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 699, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 699 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 14 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 45 minutes. That rests on 302 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AS 699's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 144 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 300 completed flights
Avg delay
43 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.66%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
1.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 302 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 699 flies
AS 699 flies SEA to SNA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:15, used on 133 of 302 flights, with 06:40 (69 flights) next.
- Departs 07:15133 flights44.0%
- Departs 06:4069 flights22.8%
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 07:15 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AS 699 runs 2 points better at 91.7%. 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 699 next to SEA to SNA
Every carrier on SEA to SNA combined arrived on time 84.7% of the time across 3,945 flights, so AS 699 is 7 points ahead of it. Alaska flew 2,570 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.3% on time. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.7%, which this flight beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS 699thin sample | 302 | 91.7% | 43 min | 0.66% | A+ |
| All Alaska Airlines on SEA–SNA | 2,570 | 86.3% | 40 min | 0.93% | A+ |
| All carriers on SEA–SNA | 3,945 | 84.7% | 49 min | 0.89% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines, whole network | 309,844 | 79.7% | 52 min | 1.20% | B |
Across the year
AS 699 quarter by quarter
AS 699 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 94.5% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 83.3%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 76 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 202566 flights83.3%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights94.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights94.5%
- Jul–Sep 202660 flights93.2%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, AS 699 did best on Saturday at 97.2% on time and worst on Wednesday at 81.8%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AS 699 runs when it is late
AS 699 often beats the schedule: 139 of 300 completed flights, 46%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 25 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 4 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early139 flights46.3%
- Within 15 min136 flights45.3%
- 15–29 min late11 flights3.7%
- 30–59 min late10 flights3.3%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights1.0%
- 2+ hours late1 flights0.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 300 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 22 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 7 still arrived on time. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AS 699
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 March 2026, 2 hours 2 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 March 2026 | 2 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 April 2026 | 1 hour 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 June 2026 | 1 hour 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 March 2026 | 1 hour 30 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 31 December 2025 | 53 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why AS 699 runs late
Carrier accounts for 52% of the 1,076 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Carrier
- 38%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
- 5%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 562 of the 1,076 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,076 delay minutes reported on AS 699.
Cancellations are rare at 0.66%, 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 1.3% 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 978 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 302 flights under AS 699 in the data flew SEA to SNA. 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. 302 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 699
For a booking, AS 699 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 91.7% on time and 0.66% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- SEA to SNA, every carrier and departure
- SNA to SEA, the return direction
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- Alaska Airlines 759 on the same route85.1%
- Seattle-Tacoma International (SEA) delay statistics
- John Wayne Airport (SNA) 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.