Flight number record

AS 287

Alaska Airlines · Newark to Los Angeles

Route: EWR → LAX
Departs: 19:29
Flights: 325
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 287, check with Alaska Airlines.

AS 287 sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 325 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AS 287 runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 41 extra late arrivals.

On time

73.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 313 completed flights

Avg delay

84 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.38%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

12.5%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 325 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.

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Schedule

When AS 287 flies

AS 287 flies EWR to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:29, used on 132 of 325 flights, with 19:59 (106 flights) and 19:26 (44 flights) next.

Departs 19:29132 flights40.6%
Departs 19:59106 flights32.6%
Departs 19:2644 flights13.5%

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 19:29 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and AS 287 runs 5 points better at 73.2%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

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Against the route

AS 287 next to EWR to LAX

Every carrier on EWR to LAX combined arrived on time 70.7% of the time across 4,750 flights, so AS 287 is 3 points ahead of it. Alaska flew 491 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 72.1% on time. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.7%, which this flight trails by 7 points.

AS 287 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 287thin sample	325	73.2%	84 min	3.38%	C−
All Alaska Airlines on EWR–LAX	491	72.1%	71 min	2.65%	C
All carriers on EWR–LAX	4,750	70.7%	82 min	2.46%	C
Alaska Airlines, whole network	309,844	79.7%	52 min	1.20%	B

Across the year

AS 287 quarter by quarter

AS 287 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 84.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 62.1%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 65 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.

Jul–Sep 202530 flights70.0%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights67.9%
Jan–Mar 202653 flights76.0%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights84.6%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights62.1%

Scale runs 55% to 90%.

By weekday, AS 287 ranged from 68.2% on Friday to 78.7% on Monday. With about 46 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Arrival by arrival

How late AS 287 runs when it is late

AS 287 often beats the schedule: 143 of 313 completed flights, 46%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 84 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 23 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 39 an hour or more.

15+ min early143 flights45.7%
Within 15 min86 flights27.5%
15–29 min late22 flights7.0%
30–59 min late23 flights7.3%
1–2 hours late20 flights6.4%
2+ hours late19 flights6.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 313 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

28 of 94 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 30% of them. In the other direction, 18 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 LAX.

The worst days

Worst days for AS 287

The latest arrival of the period was on 30 October 2025, 6 hours 19 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of AS 287 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
30 October 2025	6 hours 19 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
27 August 2026	6 hours	Extreme weather
23 October 2025	5 hours 30 minutes	Carrier
18 July 2026	5 hours 13 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
20 August 2026	4 hours 37 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why AS 287 runs late

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 7,077 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
56%
National Airspace System
22%
Carrier
12%
Extreme weather
10%
Security
0%

56% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 7,077 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 7,077 delay minutes reported on AS 287.

Cancellations run at 3.38%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

12.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 2,454 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.

The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including SEA to BZN (36), but none flew often enough under AS 287 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to EWR to LAX only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 325 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 287

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AS 287: 3.38% of its 325 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

Key figures