Flight number record

AS 294

Alaska Airlines · Portland to Newark

Route: PDX → EWR
Departs: 10:30
Flights: 328
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 294, check with Alaska Airlines.

AS 294 lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 328 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

On time

80.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 321 completed flights

Avg delay

79 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.13%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

8.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 328 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% 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 294 flies

AS 294 flies PDX to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:30, used on 67 of 328 flights, with 09:00 (50 flights) and 07:40 (49 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 10:3067 flights20.4%
Departs 09:0050 flights15.2%
Departs 07:4049 flights14.9%

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 10:30 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and AS 294 runs 3 points worse at 80.7%. 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 294 next to PDX to EWR

Every carrier on PDX to EWR combined arrived on time 83.2% of the time across 870 flights, so AS 294 is 3 points behind it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight beats by 2 points.

AS 294 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 294thin sample	328	80.7%	79 min	2.13%	B
All Alaska Airlines on PDX–EWRthin sample	349	81.9%	79 min	2.01%	B
All carriers on PDX–EWR	870	83.2%	75 min	1.95%	B
Alaska Airlines, whole network	293,372	79.1%	52 min	1.28%	B

Across the year

AS 294 quarter by quarter

AS 294 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 95.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 66.3%, a swing of 29 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 flights66.3%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights77.8%
Jan–Mar 202654 flights84.3%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%

Scale runs 60% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 294 did best on Friday at 95.6% on time and worst on Thursday at 68.9%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 27 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AS 294 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 84% of the 4,867 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
84%
Carrier
11%
Late-arriving aircraft
3%
Extreme weather
2%

84% 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 4,091 minutes out of 4,867, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,867 delay minutes reported on AS 294.

Cancellations sit at 2.13% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

8.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

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 294 in the data flew PDX to EWR. 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 294

For a booking, read AS 294 as 80.7% on time with 2.13% cancelled over 328 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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