Alaska Airlines in March 2024

77.4%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 March 2024, Alaska Airlines (AS) reported 19,639 scheduled domestic flights. 77.4% arrived on time, 0.7% were cancelled and 0.3% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 78.3% on time and 0.9% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 0.9 points below the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 42%, air carrier 28% and national aviation system 27%.

On time 77.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 21.6%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	AS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Mar 2024
Arrived on time	77.4%	—	78.5%	78.3%
Departed on time	78.2%	—	79.0%	78.5%
Cancelled	0.7%	—	1.2%	0.9%
Average arrival delay	4.2 min	—	2.9 min	6.5 min
Scheduled flights a day	655	—	826	19,726
Scheduled flights	19,639	—	301,435	591,767

85 airports and 335 routes had AS flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SEA Seattle	6,132	75.4%	5.8 min	0.4%
PDX Portland	1,367	78.6%	4.7 min	0.7%
ANC Anchorage	1,111	80.8%	3.4 min	1.4%
SFO San Francisco	829	69.2%	10.9 min	0.8%
SAN San Diego	782	73.3%	6.8 min	0.5%
LAX Los Angeles	741	74.9%	7.2 min	0.4%
PHX Phoenix	518	82.4%	2.9 min	1.2%
LAS Las Vegas	479	70.8%	12.7 min	1.0%
HNL Honolulu	368	77.4%	0.0 min	1.1%
JNU Juneau	341	85.6%	-2.8 min	1.2%
SNA Santa Ana	338	82.5%	1.2 min	0.9%
JFK New York	310	81.6%	-7.9 min	0.3%
FAI Fairbanks	274	87.6%	-1.6 min	0.4%
MCO Orlando	271	68.3%	17.1 min	0.4%
EWR Newark	254	77.2%	-3.7 min	0.8%

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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	28.4%	32.1%	65,487
Late-arriving aircraft	41.6%	42.1%	96,004
National Aviation System	26.8%	21.4%	61,719
Extreme weather	2.8%	4.2%	6,553
Security	0.4%	0.2%	859

230,622 delay minutes on 4,245 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 March 2024?

77.4% of 19,639 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 78.3% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 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.