OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Anchorage to Denver

2,405 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on ANC–DEN arrive on time 87% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate87%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay20 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.5%of scheduled flights

based on 561 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • Alaska Airlines
    On-time87%
    Medianon time
    p9015 min
    Cancel1.0%
    Flights102
  • United Airlines
    On-time87%
    Medianon time
    p9020 min
    Cancel0.4%
    Flights459

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline41%
  • Weather5%
  • Air traffic (NAS)12%
  • Late aircraft42%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly ANC → DEN

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 84% to 84% on time.

  • Overnights84% on time · p90 25 min · 1,417 flights
  • Afternoons84% on time · p90 25 min · 307 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 79% to 89% on time.

  • Mondays89% on time · p90 15 min · 248 flights
  • Tuesdays87% on time · p90 25 min · 245 flights
  • Sundays86% on time · p90 20 min · 249 flights
  • Fridays85% on time · p90 25 min · 252 flights
  • Thursdays82% on time · p90 30 min · 246 flights
  • Wednesdays82% on time · p90 25 min · 245 flights
  • Saturdays79% on time · p90 35 min · 272 flights
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.