AirportsHouston

Houston to Seattle

🇺🇸IAH🇺🇸SEAGeorge Bush Intercontinental Airport to Seattle–Tacoma International AirportDomestic, United States
Distance
3,013 km
1,872 miles
Frequency
74 departures a week
S26 schedule
Airlines
2
United Airlines, Alaska Airlines, codeshares included
Typical delay
15 min
49 departures

The route

Great circle, 3,013 km
IAHSEA3,013 km
3,013 km (1,872 miles) great-circle, measured between the two airports' published coordinates. The line is the shortest path over the globe, which on a flat map bows away from a straight line.

How delayed is this route?

Measured over months

Departures from George Bush Intercontinental Airport on this route are typically 15 minutes late (likely 13 to 18), across 49 departures we tracked between 2026-05-14 and 2026-08-02.

median delay of tracked departures on this leg. Flight Owl's own resolved departure predictions (flights our users tracked), not a census of all flights at the airport.

Airlines on this route

2 airlines with a flight number here

Every airline that puts its own flight number on this route. On a busy pair most of them are codeshare partners selling seats on another airline's aircraft, so this is wider than the list of airlines that actually operate it.

Flights on this route

2 of 13 flight numbers tracked often enough to describe
FlightAirlineDepartsAircraftDepartures seen
AS 241Alaska Airlines08:00B739 on 48% of sightings, also B39M, B73831
UA 2654United Airlines08:00B739 on 94% of sightings, also B39M18

Departure times are local to George Bush Intercontinental Airport. A flight appears here once we have tracked it at least 10 times.

Both airports

How these numbers are measured