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Route Reliability

Anchorage → Denver

ANCDEN · 2,405 miles · Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport to Denver International Airport

90
Nerd Approved
WanderNerd Reliability Score
85%
Arrive within 15 minutes
0 min
Average arrival delay
0.7%
Cancelled
693
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

Ranked by on-time arrivals. Historical results, not predictions.

  1. 1.Alaska Airlines91%128 flights
  2. 2.United Airlines85%548 flights

Not enough history to rank: Southwest Airlines (17 flights). We rank airlines only after 100 flights on the route.

What the data says

The late departure is the smart one here.

ANC–DEN flights departing between 9 PM–12 AM arrived on time 87% of the time, versus 74% between 9 AM–12 PM.

Monday comes out ahead.

A small edge: 87% on time on Mondays against 81% on Wednesdays.

Alaska Airlines has a slight edge here.

Alaska Airlines arrived on time 91% of the time on this route; United Airlines managed 85%.

Ticking up lately.

ANC–DEN flights arrived on time 85% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 78% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon87%(95 flights)
  • Tue85%(93 flights)
  • Wed81%(95 flights)
  • Thu85%(96 flights)
  • Fri87%(99 flights)
  • Sat87%(109 flights)
  • Sun83%(100 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 12–3 AM77%(17 flights)
  • 3–6 AM(9 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM74%(57 flights)
  • 12–3 PM83%(120 flights)
  • 3–6 PM(2 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM87%(482 flights)
On-time trend by month
84%
May

Jun 91% → May 84% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202591%92
July 202586%97
August 202583%96
September 202595%43
October 202594%31
November 202583%30
December 202579%43
January 202669%49
February 202687%52
March 202675%36
April 202697%29
May 202684%89

Based on 693 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.