Flight number record
AS 796
Alaska Airlines · Salt Lake City to Seattle
- Route
- SLC → SEA
- Departs
- 11:10
- Flights
- 271
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 796, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 796 earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 271 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AS 796's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 71 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 268 completed flights
Avg delay
56 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.11%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
2.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 271 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
Schedule
When AS 796 flies
AS 796 flies SLC to SEA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:10, used on 39 of 271 flights, with 11:06 (35 flights) and 11:12 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 11:1039 flights14.4%
- Departs 11:0635 flights12.9%
- Departs 11:1235 flights12.9%
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 11:10 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AS 796 runs 6 points better at 84.7%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
AS 796 next to SLC to SEA
Every carrier on SLC to SEA combined arrived on time 80.2% of the time across 4,108 flights, so AS 796 is 5 points ahead of it. Alaska flew 1,369 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.7% on time. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS 796thin sample | 271 | 84.7% | 56 min | 1.11% | B |
| All Alaska Airlines on SLC–SEA | 1,369 | 76.7% | 46 min | 1.83% | B |
| All carriers on SLC–SEA | 4,108 | 80.2% | 53 min | 0.97% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines, whole network | 293,372 | 79.1% | 52 min | 1.28% | B |
Across the year
AS 796 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AS 796 held fairly steady: 84.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 83.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 83.0% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 86.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202565 flights84.6%
- Oct–Dec 202562 flights83.1%
- Jan–Mar 202653 flights83.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights86.8%
Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AS 796 did best on Monday at 93.5% on time and worst on Friday at 76.1%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AS 796 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 2,304 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%National Airspace System
- 25%Extreme weather
- 11%Carrier
Extreme weather accounts for 25% 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 4.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,304 delay minutes reported on AS 796.
Cancellations sit at 1.11% against a national 1.81%, 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 2.6% 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 689 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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including SEA to SLC (31), but none flew often enough under AS 796 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SLC to SEA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 271 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 796
For a booking, read AS 796 as 84.7% on time with 1.11% cancelled over 271 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- SLC to SEA, every carrier and departure
- SEA to SLC, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 2995 on the same route89.0%
- Delta Air Lines 2874 on the same route91.8%
- Delta Air Lines 2817 on the same route75.1%
- Delta Air Lines 871 on the same route82.1%
- Delta Air Lines 2921 on the same route84.6%
- Alaska Airlines 734 on the same route66.3%
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.