Flight number record
AS 796
Alaska Airlines · Salt Lake City to Seattle
- Route
- SLC → SEA
- Departs
- 11:17
- Flights
- 289
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 796, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 796 lands a B, 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 55 minutes on average. That rests on 289 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AS 796's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 66 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 285 completed flights
Avg delay
53 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.38%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 289 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 796 flies
AS 796 flies SLC to SEA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:17, used on 70 of 289 flights, with 11:10 (39 flights) and 11:06 (35 flights) next.
- Departs 11:1770 flights24.2%
- Departs 11:1039 flights13.5%
- Departs 11:0635 flights12.1%
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 11:17 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and AS 796 runs 6 points better at 83.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
AS 796 next to SLC to SEA
Every carrier on SLC to SEA combined arrived on time 79.9% of the time across 4,098 flights, so AS 796 is 4 points ahead of it. Alaska flew 1,421 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.3% on time. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.7%, which this flight beats by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS 796thin sample | 289 | 83.9% | 53 min | 1.38% | B |
| All Alaska Airlines on SLC–SEA | 1,421 | 77.3% | 48 min | 1.41% | B |
| All carriers on SLC–SEA | 4,098 | 79.9% | 55 min | 0.81% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines, whole network | 309,844 | 79.7% | 52 min | 1.20% | B |
Across the year
AS 796 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AS 796 held fairly steady: 83.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 83.0% in Jan–Mar 2026, 86.8% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 77.0% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202521 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202562 flights83.1%
- Jan–Mar 202653 flights83.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights86.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights77.0%
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AS 796 did best on Monday at 89.4% on time and worst on Friday at 76.1%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AS 796 runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 25 of the 46 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 7 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early68 flights23.9%
- Within 15 min171 flights60.0%
- 15–29 min late25 flights8.8%
- 30–59 min late14 flights4.9%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.4%
- 2+ hours late3 flights1.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 285 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 34 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. In the other direction, 19 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 SEA.
The worst days
Worst days for AS 796
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 March 2026, 8 hours 21 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. Three of the five worst days fell in June 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 March 2026 | 8 hours 21 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 18 February 2026 | 6 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 June 2026 | 2 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 June 2026 | 1 hour 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 June 2026 | 1 hour 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
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 2,452 reported delay minutes.
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%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 4.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,452 delay minutes reported on AS 796.
Cancellations sit at 1.38% against a national 1.89%, 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 2.5% 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 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.
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. 289 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 83.9% on time with 1.38% cancelled over 289 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 2874 on the same route92.6%
- Delta Air Lines 2995 on the same route87.1%
- Delta Air Lines 2817 on the same route77.3%
- Delta Air Lines 871 on the same route80.3%
- Delta Air Lines 2921 on the same route84.0%
- Alaska Airlines 734 on the same route65.9%
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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.