Flight profile · Alaska Airlines
AS379
Baltimore (BWI) to Seattle (SEA) · scheduled 6:59 PM – 10:00 PM
How AS379 performs
1,044 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
AS379 arrived on time 62.7% of the time, against 68.5% for all BWI → SEA flights, so this departure is 5.8 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Alaska Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 6.1 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 1,044 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If AS379 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AS379 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS379 | 62.7% | 1.63% | 6 min | 7.8% | 1,044 |
| Alaska Airlines on BWI → SEA | 68.8% | 1.31% | 2 min | 6.5% | 1,759 |
| All BWI → SEA flights | 68.5% | 1.23% | 2 min | 7.1% | 1,945 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why AS379 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s 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 AS379 on BWI → SEA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AS379 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AS379 pushed back an average of 47 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 7 minutes late.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into BWI just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 1,006 of 1,028 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| AS379 | 22% | 91% | 18% |
| Network, same turn | 17% | 68% | 9% |
The schedule leaves a normal turn: enough time to clean and board if the aircraft is on time, little to spare if it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often AS379’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AS379 left 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s.
More: Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft lists the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves BWI late, does that still matter by the time it reaches SEA?
AS379 pushes back an average of 16.6 minutes late and reaches the gate at SEA an average of 13.2 minutes late. The 3.4 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. It spends 18.0 minutes on the taxiways at BWI, 1.9 minutes longer than a typical BWI departure in the same hour.
On arrival at SEA, AS379 spends 14.1 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 2.2 minutes longer than a typical SEA arrival (11.9 min).
Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached SEA. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 19,480 departures from BWI scheduled in the clock hour AS379 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at SEA (510,187 flights), not just AS379’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves BWI
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. AS379 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 19,480 departures from BWI are scheduled in the 6 PM–7 PM hour over the period, against 299,178 across the whole day.
AS379 is scheduled out of BWI at 6:59 PM, in the 6 PM–7 PM bank. Departures from BWI in that hour arrive on time 66.3% of the time against 76.0% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 9.6 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from BWI to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
By day of week
Does AS379 run worse on particular days?
Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Friday the least, a gap of 7.1 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes AS379 has flown
A flight number is a slot in a schedule, and carriers reassign it. These are the other city pairs this number served in the analysis period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEA→BWI Seattle to Baltimore | October 27, 2024 – June 9, 2026 | 165 | 83.0% |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AS379 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
49 min late
against a median of 6 min late
Percentiles over 1,044 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 1,044 records of AS379 operating BWI → 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 excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately. Flight numbers are resolved as carrier plus number plus route, because the same number serves different routes over time.
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