Alaska Airlines in January 2024

59.1%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 January 2024, Alaska Airlines (AS) reported 17,775 scheduled domestic flights. 59.1% arrived on time, 17.5% were cancelled and 0.9% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 72.9% on time and 3.7% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 13.8 points below the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 49%, air carrier 28% and national aviation system 17%.

On time 59.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 22.5%
Cancelled 17.5%
Diverted 0.9%

Every scheduled domestic flight reported by Alaska Airlines in January 2024.

January 2024 against a year earlier, the carrier's year and all carriers

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	AS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Jan 2024
Arrived on time	59.1%	—	78.5%	72.9%
Departed on time	59.5%	—	79.0%	74.0%
Cancelled	17.5%	—	1.2%	3.7%
Average arrival delay	10.4 min	—	2.9 min	10.4 min
Scheduled flights a day	593	—	826	18,242
Scheduled flights	17,775	—	301,435	547,271

85 airports and 345 routes had AS flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SEA Seattle	5,595	57.6%	13.2 min	15.0%
PDX Portland	1,303	58.6%	11.8 min	19.6%
ANC Anchorage	961	63.9%	10.4 min	10.5%
SFO San Francisco	782	56.4%	6.8 min	26.5%
LAX Los Angeles	689	61.1%	7.1 min	19.4%
SAN San Diego	676	55.2%	6.1 min	28.3%
LAS Las Vegas	440	58.9%	14.7 min	17.5%
PHX Phoenix	398	60.8%	8.6 min	18.8%
SNA Santa Ana	358	75.1%	6.0 min	2.5%
HNL Honolulu	357	46.8%	31.7 min	25.2%
JNU Juneau	334	64.7%	17.8 min	4.5%
MCO Orlando	261	53.3%	9.5 min	26.8%
JFK New York	244	52.9%	-3.7 min	34.8%
AUS Austin	209	48.8%	17.1 min	26.3%
PSP Palm Springs	192	55.2%	9.5 min	26.6%

By scheduled departure hour

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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	28.0%	32.6%	72,119
Late-arriving aircraft	49.0%	39.0%	126,270
National Aviation System	16.8%	17.9%	43,197
Extreme weather	5.7%	10.3%	14,791
Security	0.6%	0.2%	1,446

257,823 delay minutes on 3,995 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 January 2024?

59.1% of 17,775 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 72.9% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 2023 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 January 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for Alaska Airlines · methodology · corrections.