Flight profile · Alaska Airlines
AS326
Tampa (TPA) to Seattle (SEA) · scheduled 6:55 PM – 10:00 PM
How AS326 performs
571 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on TPA → SEA, AS326 averaged about 4 operations a week (571 in 1,127 days, cancelled ones included).
AS326 arrived on time 59.8% of the time, against 73.8% for all TPA → SEA flights, so this departure is 14.0 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Alaska Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 8.3 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 571 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If AS326 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How AS326 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far behind the TPA → SEA route as a whole, worse than 91% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.
59.8% on time for this specific departure, against 73.8% for every TPA → SEA flight.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.
Where AS326 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS326 | 59.8% | 1.05% | 7 min | 9.1% | 571 |
| Alaska Airlines on TPA → SEA | 68.1% | 1.66% | 2 min | 7.0% | 2,054 |
| All TPA → SEA flights | 73.8% | 1.39% | -2 min | 6.2% | 3,167 |
AS326 cancelled 6 of 571 operations (1.05%), close to the 1.39% for TPA → SEA.
9.1% of AS326’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 6.2% across TPA → SEA, so the long delays are more common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why AS326 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AS326 on TPA → SEA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves TPA late, does that still matter by the time it reaches SEA?
AS326 pushes back an average of 21.0 minutes late and reaches the gate at SEA an average of 18.1 minutes late. The 2.9 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so a late pushback is partly, not fully, made up before the gate. It spends 21.5 minutes on the taxiways at TPA, 4.3 minutes longer than a typical TPA departure in the same hour.
On arrival at SEA, AS326 spends 14.4 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is 2.5 minutes longer than a typical SEA arrival (11.9 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 15,268 TPA departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 510,187 arrivals at SEA. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves TPA
AS326 has one departure time, 6:55 PM, so this is what that hour at TPA is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 15,268 departures from TPA are scheduled in the 6 PM–7 PM hour over the period, against 242,628 across the whole day.
AS326 is scheduled out of TPA at 6:55 PM, in the 6 PM–7 PM bank. Departures from TPA in that hour arrive on time 65.2% of the time against 78.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 13.1 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from TPA, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes AS326 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AS326 also served this other city pair in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEA→TPA Seattle to Tampa | July 1, 2023 – June 9, 2026 | 1,063 | 75.3% |
The figures above describe only TPA → SEA, the route AS326 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
53 min late
against a median of 7 min late
Percentiles over 571 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL1090 | Delta Air Lines | 85.6% | 9 min early | 780 |
| AS326 this flight | Alaska Airlines | 59.8% | 7 min late | 571 |
Among all 2 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AS326 has the lowest on-time rate, 25.8 points behind the best. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 571 records of AS326 operating TPA → SEA, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule; cancelled and diverted flights are reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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