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Airport Reliability

ANC · Anchorage

Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport

84%
Departures within 15 minutes
8 min
Average departure delay
79%
Arrivals within 15 minutes
1.7%
Departures cancelled

Based on 22,859 departures and 22,865 arrivals. Data through May 2026.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

Departures from ANC departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 92% of the time, versus 79% between 6–9 PM.

Not much in it.

Weekday differences are small here: 83% to 86% on time across the week.

Trending in the right direction.

Departures from ANC arrived on time 89% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 81% in the three months before that.

When ANC gets messy

On-time by departure window
  • 12–3 AM87%(2312 flights)
  • 3–6 AM92%(948 flights)
  • 6–9 AM89%(3409 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM87%(3409 flights)
  • 12–3 PM84%(3541 flights)
  • 3–6 PM79%(3331 flights)
  • 6–9 PM79%(2701 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM84%(2776 flights)
On-time by weekday
  • Mon83%(3281 flights)
  • Tue84%(3133 flights)
  • Wed86%(3112 flights)
  • Thu84%(3182 flights)
  • Fri85%(3228 flights)
  • Sat84%(3249 flights)
  • Sun86%(3242 flights)
On-time trend by month
89%
May

Jun 83% → May 89% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202583%2465
July 202581%2604
August 202581%2551
September 202589%2056
October 202587%1699
November 202587%1555
December 202581%1537
January 202674%1465
February 202687%1344
March 202685%1577
April 202693%1526
May 202689%2048

Airlines departing ANC

Busiest routes from ANC

Based on 22,859 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.