Route reliability record
BET→ANC
Bethel to Anchorage
- Flights
- 723
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 399 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land roughly 50 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 723 BET to ANC flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so this route runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 64 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 700 completed flights
Avg delay
48 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.18%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Alaska
70.9% on time across 723 flights
These figures cover 723 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on BET to ANC
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Airlines | 723 | 70.9% | 48 min | 3.18% | C− |
Flight by flight
Flights on BET to ANC
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 723 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am14 flights—
- 11am–2pm338 flights71.6%
- 2pm–5pm10 flights—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am361 flights69.0%
Scale runs 60% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 71.6% on time. The full set of windows spans 3 points.
Explore
Filter BET to ANC by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On BET to ANC, the best departure window is 11am–2pm at 71.6% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 69.0%, a narrow gap of 2.6 points. All US flights leaving 11am–2pm ran 78.3%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am—
- 11am–2pm71.6%
- 2–5pm—
- 5–8pm—
- 8pm–5am69.0%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 38 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
January is the weak month at 49.1% on time, against 87.1% in May. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. March was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 80.2% on time and Monday the weakest at 61.8%, a spread of 18 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 9,783 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 7%Security
- 7%Extreme weather
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,783 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 9,783 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 3.18%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
6.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last roughly 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 399 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 83.4% on time across 723 flights, 13 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 13 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 723 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in ANC after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.18% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you roughly 50 minutes; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 700 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
BET to ANC questions
How often is BET to ANC delayed?
Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 29.1% of the 723 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average.
How reliable is BET to ANC compared with the rest of the country?
70.9% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 6 points against it. That is worth a C− on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on BET to ANC?
The 11am–2pm departure window is the strongest at 71.6% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 69.0%, 3 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are January delays on BET to ANC?
January is the weakest month at 49.1% on time, compared with 87.1% in May. Across the year that is 38 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- ANC to BET — the return legseparate record
- SEA to ANC, a related route76.5%
- FAI to ANC, a related route86.1%
- PDX to ANC, a related route83.4%
- Alaska Airlines on-time record70.9%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. BET to ANC and ANC to BET are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.