OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Seattle to Pittsburgh

2,125 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on SEA–PIT arrive on time 74% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate74%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.6%of scheduled flights

based on 344 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Alaska Airlines
    On-time74%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel0.6%
    Flights344

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline37%
  • Weather0%
  • Air traffic (NAS)16%
  • Late aircraft47%
  • 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 SEA → PIT

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 72% to 79% on time.

  • Mornings79% on time · p90 25 min · 497 flights
  • Middays77% on time · p90 40 min · 458 flights
  • Overnights72% on time · p90 30 min · 326 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 72% to 82% on time.

  • Mondays82% on time · p90 30 min · 190 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays80% on time · p90 30 min · 176 flights · limited
  • Sundays78% on time · p90 30 min · 198 flights · limited
  • Wednesdays78% on time · p90 30 min · 183 flights · limited
  • Thursdays76% on time · p90 30 min · 198 flights · limited
  • Saturdays73% on time · p90 35 min · 169 flights · limited
  • Fridays72% on time · p90 40 min · 200 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.