Flights from San Francisco to Seattle

• The average flight time from San Francisco, CA to Seattle, WA takes about 96 minutes.
• The smallest aircraft servicing flights from SFO to SEA for Skywest Air is the RJ-700 built by Canadair with 66 seats.
• UNITED offers the shortest flight times from San Francisco to Seattle.
• Alaska Airlines carried a total of 296,604 passengers from SFO to SEA in 2009.
• The oldest aircraft servicing trips from San Francisco, CA to Seattle, WA in 2009 was Alaska Airlines' B737-4 from Boeing which started flying in 1990.
• The average aircraft occupancy on flights from San Francisco to Seattle in 2009 was 81.97%.
• There were 721,168 passengers that flew from San Francisco to Seattle in 2009.
• In 2009, there were 5 airline companies operating between San Francisco and Seattle.
• The shortest flight between SFO and SEA takes about 95 minutes.
• Alaska Airlines, UNITED, Virgin America, Skywest Air, Delta Airlines offer flights from San Francisco, CA to Seattle, WA.
• Flight #987, operated by Alaska Airlines, was the flight with the most delays in 2009, with 43 minutes average delay between flights from San Francisco to Seattle.
• The largest aircraft servicing flights between San Francisco and Seattle from Delta Airlines is the B767-3/R built by Boeing with 262 seats.
• Alaska Airlines, UNITED, Skywest Air operate the shortest flights from San Francisco to Seattle.
• UNITED operated flights from SFO to SEA using 6 types of aircraft in 2009.
• The newest aircraft servicing SFO to SEA in 2009 was Alaska Airlines' B737-9 from Boeing. The B737-9 started flying in 2002.
• 871,238 seats were available on flights from SFO to SEA in 2009. Of those seats, a total of 721,168 passengers flew on all flights from SFO to SEA that year.
• The shortest flight distance between San Francisco and Seattle is 679 miles.

(Source: FAA & BTS 2009 Databases)