Flight number record
AS 1404
Alaska Airlines · Portland to Santa Ana
- Route
- PDX → SNA
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 309
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 1404, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 1404 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 40 minutes. That rests on 309 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AS 1404's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 116 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 307 completed flights
Avg delay
38 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.65%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
1.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 309 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Schedule
When AS 1404 flies
AS 1404 flies PDX to SNA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 188 of 309 flights, with 07:05 (40 flights) and 07:44 (34 flights) next.
- Departs 07:00188 flights60.8%
- Departs 07:0540 flights12.9%
- Departs 07:4434 flights11.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AS 1404 runs level with that at 88.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
AS 1404 next to PDX to SNA
Every carrier on PDX to SNA combined arrived on time 90.9% of the time across 1,543 flights, so AS 1404 is 2 points behind it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.7%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS 1404thin sample | 309 | 88.9% | 38 min | 0.65% | A+ |
| All Alaska Airlines on PDX–SNA | 1,543 | 90.9% | 37 min | 0.97% | A+ |
| All carriers on PDX–SNA | 1,543 | 90.9% | 37 min | 0.97% | A+ |
| Alaska Airlines, whole network | 309,844 | 79.7% | 52 min | 1.20% | B |
Across the year
AS 1404 quarter by quarter
AS 1404 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 94.4% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 78.5%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 77 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Oct–Dec 202566 flights78.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights94.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.5%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, AS 1404 did best on Thursday at 97.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 84.4%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AS 1404 runs when it is late
AS 1404 often beats the schedule: 92 of 307 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 18 of the 34 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 5 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early92 flights30.0%
- Within 15 min181 flights59.0%
- 15–29 min late18 flights5.9%
- 30–59 min late11 flights3.6%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights1.0%
- 2+ hours late2 flights0.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 307 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
5 of 20 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. In the other direction, 19 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at SNA.
The worst days
Worst days for AS 1404
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 August 2026, 2 hours 34 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2026 | 2 hours 34 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 November 2025 | 2 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 July 2026 | 1 hour 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 March 2026 | 1 hour 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 August 2026 | 1 hour 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AS 1404 runs late
Carrier accounts for 56% of the 1,293 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Carrier
- 36%National Airspace System
- 6%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 56%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 721 of the 1,293 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,293 delay minutes reported on AS 1404.
Cancellations are rare at 0.65%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 859 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
Every one of the 309 flights under AS 1404 in the data flew PDX to SNA. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 309 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking AS 1404
For a booking, AS 1404 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 88.9% on time and 0.65% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- PDX to SNA, every carrier and departure
- SNA to PDX, the return direction
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- Portland International (PDX) delay statistics
- John Wayne Airport (SNA) delay statistics
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A flight number here means Alaska Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.