Flights Seattle → Oakland
SEA → OAK
Route overview
The flight route from Seattle to Oakland operates with a Boeing 737 series aircraft and has an on-time performance rate of 78%, with an average delay time of eleven minutes. The destination airport, which opened in 1927, serves over eleven 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 Seattle (SEA) → Oakland (OAK) route is operated by American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Southwest Airlines. Across 655 flights monitored in recent months, 77% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 12 minutes. The cancellation rate is 3.05%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 20.3/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Oakland 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 Oakland: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Seattle (SEA) to Oakland (OAK) heads south for about 1,082 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 46m.
Departures from Seattle on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 40% of SEA-OAK flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Seattle the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Oakland it is 1.4 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)).
Across 655 tracked SEA-OAK flights, 77% left on time with an average delay of 12 min and a 3.0% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines (AA) | 74% | 16 min | 3.0% |
| Southwest Airlines (WN) | 73% | 6 min | 3.1% |
| Alaska Airlines (AS) | 67% | 10 min | 11.9% |
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Frequently asked questions about SEA-OAK
On the Seattle (SEA) -> Oakland (OAK) route, on-time performance is 77% with an average delay of 12 minutes, based on 655 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Seattle-Oakland is 3.05% across 655 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 3 airlines: American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Southwest 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.
