Flight number record

AS 198

Alaska Airlines · Anchorage to Portland

Route: ANC → PDX
Departs: 09:10
Flights: 279
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 198, check with Alaska Airlines.

AS 198 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 279 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AS 198's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 113 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 279 completed flights

Avg delay

92 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 279 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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.

Schedule

When AS 198 flies

AS 198 flies ANC to PDX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:10, used on 45 of 279 flights, with 09:05 (43 flights) and 12:10 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 09:1045 flights16.1%
Departs 09:0543 flights15.4%
Departs 12:1041 flights14.7%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.

A 09:10 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and AS 198 runs 5 points better 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.

Against the route

AS 198 next to ANC to PDX

Every carrier on ANC to PDX combined arrived on time 91.1% of the time across 1,179 flights, so AS 198 is 2 points behind it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight beats by 10 points.

AS 198 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 198thin sample	279	88.9%	92 min	0.00%	A+
All Alaska Airlines on ANC–PDX	1,179	91.1%	70 min	0.00%	A+
All carriers on ANC–PDX	1,179	91.1%	70 min	0.00%	A+
Alaska Airlines, whole network	293,372	79.1%	52 min	1.28%	B

Across the year

AS 198 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AS 198 held fairly steady: 87.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 89.5% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 88.0% in Jan–Mar 2026. A spread of 3 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights87.0%
Oct–Dec 202586 flights89.5%
Jan–Mar 202683 flights88.0%
Apr–Jun 202618 flights—

Scale runs 80% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 198 ranged from 85.7% on Sunday to 92.7% on Thursday. With about 40 flights behind each day, a spread of 7 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why AS 198 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 46% of the 2,858 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
46%
Late-arriving aircraft
34%
Extreme weather
12%
National Airspace System
9%

Extreme weather accounts for 12% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,858 delay minutes reported on AS 198.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are 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 4.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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.

At 1,542 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.

Every one of the 279 flights under AS 198 in the data flew ANC to PDX. 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. 279 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 198

For a booking, AS 198 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 88.9% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.

Where to go next

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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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