Flights Seattle → Great Falls
SEA → GTF
Route overview
The flight route from Seattle to Great Falls operates with a fleet of De Havilland Canada DHC-8-400 Dash 8Q aircraft and has seen eighty-nine total flights, with a punctuality rate of seventy-nine percent. The average delay for these flights is nine minutes and fifty-four seconds, serving an airport that accommodates approximately 351,226 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 Seattle (SEA) → Great Falls (GTF) route is operated by Alaska Airlines. Across 120 flights monitored in recent months, 79% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 10 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.67%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 20.9/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Great Falls the average ATFM delay is 1.4 minutes (main cause: airspace/NAS (BTS)). Departing from Seattle the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Great Falls: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Seattle (SEA) to Great Falls (GTF) heads east for about 822 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 27m.
Departures from Seattle on this leg cluster in the morning window: about 74% of SEA-GTF flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Seattle the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Great Falls it is 1.4 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)).
Across 120 tracked SEA-GTF flights, 79% left on time with an average delay of 10 min and a 1.7% cancellation rate.
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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 SEA-GTF
On the Seattle (SEA) -> Great Falls (GTF) route, on-time performance is 79% with an average delay of 10 minutes, based on 120 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Seattle-Great Falls is 1.67% across 120 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.
