Flight number record

AS 290

Alaska Airlines · Newark to Portland

Route: EWR → PDX
Departs: 17:43
Flights: 328
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 290, check with Alaska Airlines.

AS 290 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 328 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AS 290 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 62 extra late arrivals.

On time

71.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 322 completed flights

Avg delay

75 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.83%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

10.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 328 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When AS 290 flies

AS 290 flies EWR to PDX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:43, used on 50 of 328 flights, with 17:30 (48 flights) and 17:48 (45 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 17:4350 flights15.2%
Departs 17:3048 flights14.6%
Departs 17:4845 flights13.7%

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 17:43 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and AS 290 runs 3 points better at 71.4%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

AS 290 next to EWR to PDX

Every carrier on EWR to PDX combined arrived on time 76.8% of the time across 870 flights, so AS 290 is 5 points behind it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight trails by 8 points.

AS 290 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 290thin sample	328	71.4%	75 min	1.83%	C
All Alaska Airlines on EWR–PDXthin sample	349	73.2%	75 min	1.72%	C
All carriers on EWR–PDX	870	76.8%	68 min	1.61%	B
Alaska Airlines, whole network	293,372	79.1%	52 min	1.28%	B

Across the year

AS 290 quarter by quarter

AS 290 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 76.9% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 66.7%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 82 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 202592 flights70.8%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights69.2%
Jan–Mar 202654 flights66.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.9%

Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 290 did best on Saturday at 78.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 62.2%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AS 290 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 6,885 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
42%
National Airspace System
41%
Extreme weather
11%
Carrier
5%
Security
1%

Extreme weather accounts for 11% 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 1.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,885 delay minutes reported on AS 290.

Cancellations sit at 1.83% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 2,434 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 328 flights under AS 290 in the data flew EWR 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. 328 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 290

For a booking, AS 290 is one of the weaker ways to fly EWR to PDX: 5 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.

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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