Alaska Airlines in March 2025

80.3%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 2025, Alaska Airlines (AS) reported 18,925 scheduled domestic flights. 80.3% arrived on time, 0.6% were cancelled and 0.2% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 79.3% on time and 1.2% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 1.0 points above the combined figure.

A year earlier, in March 2024, it reported 19,639 flights with 77.4% on time: a change of +2.9 points.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 39%, national aviation system 29% and air carrier 28%.

On time 80.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.8%
Cancelled 0.6%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled domestic flight reported by Alaska Airlines in March 2025.

March 2025 against a year earlier, the carrier's year and all carriers

Measure	Mar 2025	Mar 2024	AS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Mar 2025
Arrived on time	80.3%	77.4%	78.5%	79.3%
Departed on time	82.2%	78.2%	79.0%	79.9%
Cancelled	0.6%	0.7%	1.2%	1.2%
Average arrival delay	1.2 min	4.2 min	2.9 min	5.5 min
Scheduled flights a day	631	655	826	20,029
Scheduled flights	18,925	19,639	301,435	600,872

85 airports and 344 routes had AS flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SEA Seattle	5,724	78.6%	2.2 min	0.4%
PDX Portland	1,545	83.0%	-0.2 min	0.6%
ANC Anchorage	1,051	83.3%	-1.2 min	0.8%
SAN San Diego	825	75.0%	3.4 min	1.1%
SFO San Francisco	778	76.3%	8.5 min	0.4%
LAX Los Angeles	661	80.9%	-1.2 min	1.1%
PHX Phoenix	518	83.2%	2.1 min	0.4%
LAS Las Vegas	478	79.5%	5.3 min	0.6%
SNA Santa Ana	344	84.9%	0.6 min	0.9%
JNU Juneau	341	85.9%	-3.5 min	2.3%
HNL Honolulu	321	76.9%	1.4 min	0.3%
JFK New York	317	77.9%	2.4 min	0.6%
MCO Orlando	279	73.8%	6.8 min	1.4%
FAI Fairbanks	256	93.0%	-5.6 min	0.0%
EWR Newark	245	79.2%	-5.4 min	0.4%

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), March 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Mar 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	27.7%	33.0%	50,098
Late-arriving aircraft	39.3%	39.2%	71,000
National Aviation System	28.8%	21.9%	52,056
Extreme weather	3.9%	5.9%	7,044
Security	0.2%	0.1%	358

180,556 delay minutes on 3,553 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 2025?

80.3% of 18,925 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 79.3% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In March 2024 the carrier reported 19,639 flights with 77.4% on time and 0.7% cancelled, against 80.3% and 0.6% in March 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for March 2025; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for Alaska Airlines · methodology · corrections.