Flight profile · Alaska Airlines
AS641
Tucson (TUS) to Seattle (SEA) · scheduled 3:33 PM – 7:10 PM
How AS641 performs
1,025 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
AS641 arrived on time 76.9% of the time, against 83.6% for all TUS → SEA flights, so this departure is 6.7 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Alaska Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 5.2 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 1,025 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If AS641 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AS641 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS641 | 76.9% | 0.49% | -1 min | 4.6% | 1,025 |
| Alaska Airlines on TUS → SEA | 82.1% | 0.56% | -3 min | 3.6% | 1,606 |
| All TUS → SEA flights | 83.6% | 0.52% | -6 min | 4.2% | 3,279 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why AS641 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
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 AS641 on TUS → 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 AS641 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AS641 pushed back an average of 41 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 2 minutes late.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into TUS just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 1,011 of 1,020 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AS641 | 22% | 93% | 9% |
| Network, same turn | 18% | 85% | 10% |
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 45 to 59 minutes. How often AS641’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AS641 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 TUS late, does that still matter by the time it reaches SEA?
AS641 pushes back an average of 10.4 minutes late and reaches the gate at SEA an average of 6.0 minutes late. The 4.4 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 17.5 minutes on the taxiways at TUS, 2.0 minutes longer than a typical TUS departure in the same hour.
On arrival at SEA, AS641 spends 10.6 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 1.2 minutes shorter 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 2,904 departures from TUS scheduled in the clock hour AS641 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 AS641’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves TUS
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. AS641 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 2,904 departures from TUS are scheduled in the 3 PM–4 PM hour over the period, against 59,292 across the whole day.
AS641 is scheduled out of TUS at 3:33 PM, in the 3 PM–4 PM bank. Departures from TUS in that hour arrive on time 71.6% of the time against 84.3% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 12.6 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from TUS 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 AS641 run worse on particular days?
Thursday 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.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
34 min late
against a median of 1 min early
Percentiles over 1,025 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 1,025 records of AS641 operating TUS → 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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