OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Seattle to Santa Rosa

618 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on SEA–STS arrive on time 75% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate75%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.3%of scheduled flights

based on 318 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time64%
    Median5 min
    p9055 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights92
  • Alaska Airlinesbest
    On-time80%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel0.4%
    Flights226

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline39%
  • Weather1%
  • Air traffic (NAS)20%
  • Late aircraft41%
  • 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 → STS

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 73% to 78% on time.

  • Mornings78% on time · p90 25 min · 105 flights · limited
  • Middays78% on time · p90 30 min · 863 flights
  • Evenings77% on time · p90 40 min · 293 flights
  • Afternoons73% on time · p90 35 min · 168 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 75% to 83% on time.

  • Tuesdays83% on time · p90 25 min · 194 flights · limited
  • Saturdays81% on time · p90 25 min · 186 flights · limited
  • Mondays76% on time · p90 30 min · 216 flights
  • Thursdays76% on time · p90 45 min · 211 flights
  • Wednesdays75% on time · p90 35 min · 194 flights · limited
  • Sundays75% on time · p90 40 min · 217 flights
  • Fridays75% on time · p90 40 min · 212 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.