Flight number record
AS 759
Alaska Airlines · Seattle to Santa Ana
- Route
- SEA → SNA
- Departs
- 09:00
- Flights
- 297
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 759, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 759 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 45 minutes. That rests on 297 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AS 759's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 78 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 295 completed flights
Avg delay
45 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.34%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 297 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 759 flies
AS 759 flies SEA to SNA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:00, used on 85 of 297 flights, with 08:18 (70 flights) and 08:25 (35 flights) next.
- Departs 09:0085 flights28.6%
- Departs 08:1870 flights23.6%
- Departs 08:2535 flights11.8%
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 09:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and AS 759 runs level with that at 85.1%. 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 759 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 759 is about level with 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 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS 759thin sample | 297 | 85.1% | 45 min | 0.34% | 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 759 quarter by quarter
AS 759 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 95.6% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 74.1%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 74 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 202554 flights74.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights86.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights77.4%
Scale runs 65% to 100%.
By weekday, AS 759 did best on Friday at 93.0% on time and worst on Tuesday at 80.0%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AS 759 runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 22 of the 44 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 9 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early71 flights24.1%
- Within 15 min180 flights61.0%
- 15–29 min late22 flights7.5%
- 30–59 min late13 flights4.4%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights2.0%
- 2+ hours late3 flights1.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 295 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 38 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 29% of them. In the other direction, 17 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at SNA.
The worst days
Worst days for AS 759
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 March 2026, 4 hours 56 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 March 2026 | 4 hours 56 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 22 July 2026 | 2 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 October 2025 | 2 hours 8 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 July 2026 | 1 hour 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 April 2026 | 1 hour 17 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AS 759 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 1,970 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Carrier
- 34%National Airspace System
- 14%Late-arriving aircraft
- 12%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 12% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,970 delay minutes reported on AS 759.
Cancellations are rare at 0.34%, 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 3.1% 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 297 flights under AS 759 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. 297 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 759
For a booking, AS 759 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.1% on time and 0.34% 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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- Seattle-Tacoma International (SEA) delay statistics
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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.