Flight profile · Alaska Airlines
AS644
Seattle (SEA) to Phoenix (PHX) · scheduled 8:55 PM – 11:59 PM
How AS644 performs
819 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
AS644 arrived on time 76.0% of the time, against 79.4% for all SEA → PHX flights, so this departure is 3.4 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Alaska Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 1.1 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 819 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If AS644 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AS644 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS644 | 76.0% | 0.37% | -1 min | 4.7% | 819 |
| Alaska Airlines on SEA → PHX | 77.1% | 0.89% | -2 min | 3.7% | 9,137 |
| All SEA → PHX flights | 79.4% | 0.60% | -4 min | 4.6% | 22,328 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why AS644 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 AS644 on SEA → PHX. 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 AS644 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AS644 pushed back an average of 20 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 3 minutes late.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into SEA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 743 of 816 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AS644 | 26% | 41% | 16% |
| 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 AS644’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AS644 left 15 or more minutes late is lower 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 SEA late, does that still matter by the time it reaches PHX?
AS644 pushes back an average of 8.7 minutes late and reaches the gate at PHX an average of 6.1 minutes late. The 2.6 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. Its 20.9 minutes on the taxiways at SEA is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at PHX, AS644 spends 7.4 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 about what any arrival at PHX spends on the ground before reaching the gate.
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 PHX. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 15,096 departures from SEA scheduled in the clock hour AS644 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at PHX (598,496 flights), not just AS644’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves SEA
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. AS644 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 15,096 departures from SEA are scheduled in the 8 PM–9 PM hour over the period, against 510,205 across the whole day.
AS644 is scheduled out of SEA at 8:55 PM, in the 8 PM–9 PM bank. Departures from SEA in that hour arrive on time 74.5% of the time against 79.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 4.6 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from SEA 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.
Other routes AS644 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.
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AS644 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.
40 min late
against a median of 1 min early
Percentiles over 819 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL2419 | Delta Air Lines | 91.0% | 11 min early | 784 |
| DL2447 | Delta Air Lines | 84.5% | 8 min early | 714 |
| DL2442 | Delta Air Lines | 82.9% | 9 min early | 656 |
| DL2698 | Delta Air Lines | 79.2% | 6 min early | 696 |
| AS644 this flight | Alaska Airlines | 76.0% | 1 min early | 819 |
| AS632 | Alaska Airlines | 73.5% | 0 min early | 985 |
| AS744 | Alaska Airlines | 72.6% | 0 min early | 906 |
| AS700 | Alaska Airlines | 71.3% | 1 min late | 1,098 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. AS644 is placed in the same ordering rather than left out of it; the rows around it are the most punctual departures on the route, not all of them, so this is a comparison and not a rank. Schedules change; confirm the departure still operates before booking around this.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 819 records of AS644 operating SEA → PHX, 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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