Flight number record

AS 701

Alaska Airlines · Las Vegas to Seattle

Route: LAS → SEA
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 261
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 701, check with Alaska Airlines.

AS 701 earns an A+. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 18 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 261 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AS 701's record is 18 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 182 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

95.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 259 completed flights

Avg delay

125 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.77%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

1.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 261 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 701 flies

AS 701 flies LAS to SEA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 204 of 261 flights, with 07:00 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:00204 flights78.2%
Departs 07:0036 flights13.8%

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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AS 701 runs 7 points better at 95.8%. 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 701 next to LAS to SEA

Every carrier on LAS to SEA combined arrived on time 82.3% of the time across 5,649 flights, so AS 701 is 14 points ahead of it. Alaska flew 2,638 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.8% on time. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight beats by 17 points.

AS 701 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 701thin sample	261	95.8%	125 min	0.77%	A+
All Alaska Airlines on LAS–SEA	2,638	82.8%	64 min	1.25%	B
All carriers on LAS–SEA	5,649	82.3%	63 min	0.94%	B+
Alaska Airlines, whole network	293,372	79.1%	52 min	1.28%	B

Across the year

AS 701 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AS 701 held fairly steady: 96.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 91.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 97.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 96.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202551 flights96.1%
Oct–Dec 202548 flights91.7%
Jan–Mar 202686 flights97.6%
Apr–Jun 202676 flights96.0%

Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 701 ranged from 90.7% on Monday to 100.0% on Sunday. With about 37 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why AS 701 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 90% of the 1,372 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
90%
National Airspace System
9%
Security
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 90%, 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 1,238 of the 1,372 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,372 delay minutes reported on AS 701.

Cancellations are rare at 0.77%, 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 1.5% 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 867 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.

Every one of the 261 flights under AS 701 in the data flew LAS to SEA. 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. 261 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 701

For a booking, AS 701 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 95.8% on time and 0.77% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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