Alaska Airlines in November 2025

79.8%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 2025, Alaska Airlines (AS) reported 19,752 scheduled domestic flights. 79.8% arrived on time, 1.3% were cancelled and 0.4% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 77.3% on time and 2.5% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 2.5 points above the combined figure.

A year earlier, in November 2024, it reported 19,462 flights with 82.4% on time: a change of −2.6 points.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, national aviation system 36%, late-arriving aircraft 35% and air carrier 25%.

On time 79.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.5%
Cancelled 1.3%
Diverted 0.4%

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

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

Measure	Nov 2025	Nov 2024	AS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Nov 2025
Arrived on time	79.8%	82.4%	78.5%	77.3%
Departed on time	82.6%	85.4%	79.0%	78.1%
Cancelled	1.3%	0.6%	1.2%	2.5%
Average arrival delay	0.4 min	0.3 min	2.9 min	6.4 min
Scheduled flights a day	658	649	826	19,018
Scheduled flights	19,752	19,462	301,435	570,550

85 airports and 344 routes had AS flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SEA Seattle	5,761	79.1%	0.8 min	1.2%
PDX Portland	1,991	82.6%	-0.2 min	0.9%
ANC Anchorage	1,028	85.8%	-4.8 min	1.6%
SAN San Diego	964	73.5%	5.4 min	1.5%
SFO San Francisco	771	81.1%	-0.7 min	0.8%
LAX Los Angeles	605	88.3%	-8.0 min	0.3%
LAS Las Vegas	487	83.4%	0.6 min	1.2%
PHX Phoenix	446	79.6%	4.5 min	0.4%
SNA Santa Ana	357	93.3%	-12.1 min	0.8%
JFK New York	331	69.2%	6.5 min	2.7%
JNU Juneau	321	85.7%	-6.9 min	1.6%
EWR Newark	284	69.4%	12.0 min	4.6%
ORD Chicago	265	51.7%	30.2 min	4.9%
FAI Fairbanks	234	84.2%	-6.7 min	1.7%
GEG Spokane	226	88.5%	-3.2 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), November 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Nov 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	25.4%	30.2%	46,078
Late-arriving aircraft	35.1%	38.3%	63,689
National Aviation System	35.9%	26.7%	65,228
Extreme weather	3.4%	4.6%	6,150
Security	0.3%	0.1%	468

181,613 delay minutes on 3,653 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 2025?

79.8% of 19,752 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 77.3% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In November 2024 the carrier reported 19,462 flights with 82.4% on time and 0.6% cancelled, against 79.8% and 1.3% in November 2025.

Provenance

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