Flight number record
AS 264
Alaska Airlines · Portland to Santa Ana
- Route
- PDX → SNA
- Departs
- 14:48
- Flights
- 277
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 264, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 264 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 14 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 35 minutes. That rests on 277 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AS 264's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 136 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 276 completed flights
Avg delay
34 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.36%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
0.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 277 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 264 flies
AS 264 flies PDX to SNA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:48, used on 68 of 277 flights, with 14:54 (36 flights) and 14:49 (35 flights) next.
- Departs 14:4868 flights24.5%
- Departs 14:5436 flights13.0%
- Departs 14:4935 flights12.6%
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 14:48 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and AS 264 runs 19 points better at 90.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
AS 264 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 264 is about level with it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.7%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS 264thin sample | 277 | 90.9% | 34 min | 0.36% | 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 264 quarter by quarter
AS 264 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 86.7%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 69 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 202564 flights90.6%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights86.7%
- Apr–Jun 202661 flights96.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights91.9%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, AS 264 ranged from 85.0% on Sunday to 95.0% on Tuesday. With about 40 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AS 264 runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 14 of the 25 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 2 reached an hour or more. Not one arrived two hours late.
- 15+ min early50 flights18.1%
- Within 15 min201 flights72.8%
- 15–29 min late14 flights5.1%
- 30–59 min late9 flights3.3%
- 1–2 hours late2 flights0.7%
- 2+ hours late0 flights0.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 276 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 22 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 11 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 14 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 264
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 December 2025, 1 hour 50 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 22 December 2025 | 1 hour 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 March 2026 | 1 hour 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 August 2026 | 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 February 2026 | 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 November 2025 | 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AS 264 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 844 reported delay minutes.
- 37%National Airspace System
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
37% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 310 minutes out of 844, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 844 delay minutes reported on AS 264.
Cancellations are rare at 0.36%, 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 0.7% 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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including LIH to PDX (28), but none flew often enough under AS 264 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to PDX to SNA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 277 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 264
For a booking, AS 264 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 90.9% on time and 0.36% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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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.