Flight number record
AS 702
Alaska Airlines · Santa Ana to Seattle
- Route
- SNA → SEA
- Departs
- 08:05
- Flights
- 309
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 702, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 702 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 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 55 minutes. That rests on 309 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AS 702's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 129 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 307 completed flights
Avg delay
53 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.65%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 309 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When AS 702 flies
AS 702 flies SNA to SEA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:05, used on 191 of 309 flights, with 08:15 (31 flights) and 08:00 (31 flights) next.
- Departs 08:05191 flights61.8%
- Departs 08:1531 flights10.0%
- Departs 08:0031 flights10.0%
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 08:05 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and AS 702 runs 6 points better at 90.2%. 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 702 next to SNA to SEA
Every carrier on SNA to SEA combined arrived on time 85.8% of the time across 3,944 flights, so AS 702 is 4 points ahead of it. Alaska flew 2,569 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 87.9% on time. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.7%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS 702thin sample | 309 | 90.2% | 53 min | 0.65% | A+ |
| All Alaska Airlines on SNA–SEA | 2,569 | 87.9% | 48 min | 1.13% | A |
| All carriers on SNA–SEA | 3,944 | 85.8% | 57 min | 1.06% | A |
| Alaska Airlines, whole network | 309,844 | 79.7% | 52 min | 1.20% | B |
Across the year
AS 702 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AS 702 held fairly steady: 89.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 94.4% in Jan–Mar 2026, 90.0% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 85.5% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Oct–Dec 202566 flights89.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights94.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights85.5%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, AS 702 ranged from 86.4% on Wednesday to 93.2% on Monday. With about 44 flights behind each day, a spread of 7 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AS 702 runs when it is late
AS 702 often beats the schedule: 120 of 307 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 30 late arrivals split 14 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early120 flights39.1%
- Within 15 min157 flights51.1%
- 15–29 min late14 flights4.6%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.6%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.6%
- 2+ hours late3 flights1.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 307 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
3 of 20 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AS 702
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 January 2026, 3 hours 54 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 January 2026 | 3 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 March 2026 | 3 hours 15 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 31 December 2025 | 2 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 July 2026 | 1 hour 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 December 2025 | 1 hour 26 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AS 702 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 47% of the 1,603 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%National Airspace System
- 43%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
47% 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 761 minutes out of 1,603, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 1,603 delay minutes reported on AS 702.
Cancellations are rare at 0.65%, 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 2.6% 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 309 flights under AS 702 in the data flew SNA 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. 309 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 702
For a booking, AS 702 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 90.2% on time and 0.65% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- SNA to SEA, every carrier and departure
- SEA to SNA, the return direction
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- John Wayne Airport (SNA) delay statistics
- Seattle-Tacoma International (SEA) delay statistics
- Alaska Airlines on-time record
- Every Alaska Airlines flight number with a record
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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.