Alaska Airlines in November 2023

82.7%arrived on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In November 2023, Alaska Airlines (AS) reported 19,255 scheduled domestic flights. 82.7% arrived on time, 0.4% were cancelled and 0.3% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 86.2% on time and 0.1% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 3.5 points below the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 37%, air carrier 31% and national aviation system 27%.

On time 82.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.5%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled domestic flight reported by Alaska Airlines in November 2023.

November 2023 against a year earlier, the carrier's year and all carriers

Measure	Nov 2023	Year earlier	AS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Nov 2023
Arrived on time	82.7%	—	78.5%	86.2%
Departed on time	84.8%	—	79.0%	86.0%
Cancelled	0.4%	—	1.2%	0.1%
Average arrival delay	-1.1 min	—	2.9 min	-1.3 min
Scheduled flights a day	642	—	826	18,793
Scheduled flights	19,255	—	301,435	563,777

85 airports and 335 routes had AS flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SEA Seattle	6,269	81.6%	0.5 min	0.1%
PDX Portland	1,340	85.7%	-0.5 min	0.1%
ANC Anchorage	950	74.6%	5.5 min	1.5%
SFO San Francisco	897	87.8%	-7.0 min	0.0%
SAN San Diego	760	82.8%	-2.5 min	0.0%
LAX Los Angeles	730	88.9%	-6.3 min	0.0%
LAS Las Vegas	414	84.8%	-0.6 min	0.2%
PHX Phoenix	385	88.3%	-1.2 min	0.0%
SNA Santa Ana	381	87.1%	-3.6 min	0.3%
HNL Honolulu	359	82.2%	-3.5 min	0.0%
JFK New York	349	84.5%	-4.7 min	0.0%
JNU Juneau	322	82.6%	0.2 min	4.3%
EWR Newark	307	82.1%	-0.9 min	0.7%
SJC San Jose	232	92.7%	-10.6 min	0.0%
ORD Chicago	231	77.1%	1.4 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

100

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of AS flights that arrived on time, by scheduled departure hour (local time at each origin), November 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Nov 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	30.8%	42.5%	44,591
Late-arriving aircraft	37.0%	37.3%	53,652
National Aviation System	26.5%	16.2%	38,426
Extreme weather	5.1%	3.7%	7,348
Security	0.6%	0.3%	802

144,819 delay minutes on 3,180 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

What share of Alaska Airlines flights were on time in November 2023?

82.7% of 19,255 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 86.2% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

November 2022 is outside the 36 months on file, or the carrier did not report that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for November 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for Alaska Airlines · methodology · corrections.