Flight number record

AS 82

Alaska Airlines · Anchorage to Seattle

Route: ANC → SEA
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 316
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 82, check with Alaska Airlines.

AS 82 lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 35 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 316 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AS 82's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 63 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 311 completed flights

Avg delay

37 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.27%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

1.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 316 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 82 flies

AS 82 flies ANC to SEA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 236 of 316 flights, with 00:59 (33 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:00236 flights74.7%
Departs 00:5933 flights10.4%

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 82 runs 5 points worse at 83.9%. 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 82 next to ANC to SEA

Every carrier on ANC to SEA combined arrived on time 85.5% of the time across 6,681 flights, so AS 82 is 2 points behind it. Alaska flew 4,926 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.7% on time. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight beats by 5 points.

AS 82 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 82thin sample	316	83.9%	37 min	1.27%	B
All Alaska Airlines on ANC–SEA	4,926	85.7%	52 min	1.24%	A
All carriers on ANC–SEA	6,681	85.5%	64 min	1.12%	A
Alaska Airlines, whole network	293,372	79.1%	52 min	1.28%	B

Across the year

AS 82 quarter by quarter

AS 82 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 88.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 68.9%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 79 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.

Jul–Sep 202561 flights68.9%
Oct–Dec 202576 flights87.8%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights86.4%
Apr–Jun 202689 flights88.6%

Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 82 ranged from 79.1% on Friday to 88.6% on Monday. With about 45 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why AS 82 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 53% of the 1,871 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.

National Airspace System
53%
Carrier
41%
Extreme weather
4%
Late-arriving aircraft
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 41%, 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 773 of the 1,871 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,871 delay minutes reported on AS 82.

Cancellations sit at 1.27% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.32%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.9% 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 1,448 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 316 flights under AS 82 in the data flew ANC 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. 316 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 82

For a booking, read AS 82 as 83.9% on time with 1.27% cancelled over 316 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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