Alaska Airlines in April 2025

80.6%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 April 2025, Alaska Airlines (AS) reported 19,025 scheduled domestic flights. 80.6% arrived on time, 0.4% were cancelled and 0.2% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 79.5% on time and 0.8% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 1.1 points above the combined figure.

A year earlier, in April 2024, it reported 19,430 flights with 78.7% on time: a change of +1.9 points.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 39%, air carrier 30% and national aviation system 28%.

On time 80.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.8%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Apr 2025	Apr 2024	AS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Apr 2025
Arrived on time	80.6%	78.7%	78.5%	79.5%
Departed on time	83.1%	79.8%	79.0%	80.6%
Cancelled	0.4%	0.6%	1.2%	0.8%
Average arrival delay	1.4 min	3.4 min	2.9 min	5.7 min
Scheduled flights a day	634	648	826	19,465
Scheduled flights	19,025	19,430	301,435	583,950

86 airports and 330 routes had AS flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SEA Seattle	5,837	77.7%	2.7 min	0.2%
PDX Portland	1,475	84.8%	-0.1 min	0.5%
ANC Anchorage	985	82.9%	-0.3 min	0.8%
SAN San Diego	873	81.6%	-0.7 min	0.3%
SFO San Francisco	868	81.9%	1.4 min	0.5%
LAX Los Angeles	626	85.3%	-1.4 min	0.2%
PHX Phoenix	500	84.6%	0.6 min	0.0%
LAS Las Vegas	470	78.3%	6.1 min	0.2%
SNA Santa Ana	348	91.4%	-4.3 min	0.6%
JFK New York	339	80.8%	1.1 min	0.6%
JNU Juneau	330	87.9%	-5.1 min	0.6%
EWR Newark	289	69.2%	21.3 min	0.3%
MCO Orlando	251	87.6%	-10.8 min	0.4%
PSP Palm Springs	224	86.6%	-1.5 min	0.0%
FAI Fairbanks	219	86.3%	-0.9 min	0.9%

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), April 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Apr 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	30.2%	32.7%	52,461
Late-arriving aircraft	39.4%	39.4%	68,345
National Aviation System	28.0%	22.2%	48,657
Extreme weather	2.0%	5.5%	3,490
Security	0.4%	0.2%	657

173,610 delay minutes on 3,568 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 April 2025?

80.6% of 19,025 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 79.5% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In April 2024 the carrier reported 19,430 flights with 78.7% on time and 0.6% cancelled, against 80.6% and 0.4% in April 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for April 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.