Flights Barrow → Anchorage
BRW → ANC
Route overview
The flight route from Barrow to Anchorage operates with an average of 102 flights and has a high on-time performance rate of 80%. Despite this, the mean delay for these flights is approximately 13.4 minutes, serving one of Alaska's busiest airports in terms of passenger traffic, which sees around 4.9 million passengers annually.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Barrow (BRW) → Anchorage (ANC) route is operated by Alaska Airlines. Across 137 flights monitored in recent months, 76% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 18 minutes. The cancellation rate is 9.49%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 24.5/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Anchorage the average ATFM delay is 0.9 minutes (main cause: airspace/NAS (BTS)).
Heading to Anchorage: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Barrow (BRW) to Anchorage (ANC) heads south for about 1,162 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 52m.
Departures from Barrow on this leg cluster in the morning window: about 87% of BRW-ANC flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: arriving into Anchorage it is 0.9 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)).
Across 137 tracked BRW-ANC flights, 76% left on time with an average delay of 18 min and a 9.5% cancellation rate.
Route facts
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Airlines (AS) | 67% | 10 min | 11.9% |
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Frequently asked questions about BRW-ANC
On the Barrow (BRW) -> Anchorage (ANC) route, on-time performance is 76% with an average delay of 18 minutes, based on 137 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Barrow-Anchorage is 9.49% across 137 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Alaska Airlines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
