Flight number record

AS 292

Alaska Airlines · San Francisco to Newark

Route: SFO → EWR
Departs: 07:00
Flights: 269
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 292, check with Alaska Airlines.

AS 292 earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 269 flights, with a median arrival 19 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AS 292's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 90 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 262 completed flights

Avg delay

71 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.12%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 269 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 19 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 292 flies

AS 292 flies SFO to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 53 of 269 flights, with 08:00 (52 flights) and 07:54 (50 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:0053 flights19.7%
Departs 08:0052 flights19.3%
Departs 07:5450 flights18.6%

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 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 292 runs 3 points worse at 86.6%. 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 292 next to SFO to EWR

Every carrier on SFO to EWR combined arrived on time 76.4% of the time across 4,401 flights, so AS 292 is 10 points ahead of it. Alaska flew 611 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.0% on time. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight beats by 8 points.

AS 292 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 292thin sample	269	86.6%	71 min	1.12%	A
All Alaska Airlines on SFO–EWR	611	86.0%	60 min	0.82%	A+
All carriers on SFO–EWR	4,401	76.4%	80 min	2.04%	B
Alaska Airlines, whole network	293,372	79.1%	52 min	1.28%	B

Across the year

AS 292 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AS 292 held fairly steady: 82.4% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.3% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 90.4% in Jan–Mar 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202588 flights82.4%
Oct–Dec 202583 flights84.3%
Jan–Mar 202677 flights90.4%
Apr–Jun 202621 flights—

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 292 did best on Friday at 100.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 70.0%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 30 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AS 292 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 62% of the 2,500 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.

National Airspace System
62%
Carrier
30%
Late-arriving aircraft
7%
Extreme weather
1%

62% 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 1,562 minutes out of 2,500, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,500 delay minutes reported on AS 292.

Cancellations sit at 1.12% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.49%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.6% 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 2,565 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 two other city pairs in the data, including FAI to SEA (28) and SEA to SLC (21), but none flew often enough under AS 292 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SFO to EWR only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 269 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 292

For a booking, AS 292 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 86.6% on time and 1.12% 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.

Key figures