Flight number record
AS 294
Alaska Airlines · Portland to Newark
- Route
- PDX → EWR
- Departs
- 07:40
- Flights
- 328
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 294, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 294 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 328 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AS 294's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 89 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 320 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.13%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 328 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 17 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 294 flies
AS 294 flies PDX to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:40, used on 98 of 328 flights, with 10:30 (55 flights) and 10:39 (34 flights) next.
- Departs 07:4098 flights29.9%
- Departs 10:3055 flights16.8%
- Departs 10:3934 flights10.4%
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 07:40 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AS 294 runs 3 points worse at 86.2%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
AS 294 next to PDX to EWR
Every carrier on PDX to EWR combined arrived on time 84.3% of the time across 923 flights, so AS 294 is 2 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.7%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS 294thin sample | 328 | 86.2% | 77 min | 2.13% | A |
| All Alaska Airlines on PDX–EWR | 407 | 87.2% | 79 min | 1.72% | A |
| All carriers on PDX–EWR | 923 | 84.3% | 85 min | 1.73% | B |
| Alaska Airlines, whole network | 309,844 | 79.7% | 52 min | 1.20% | 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 70.0%, a swing of 26 points on roughly 66 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 202591 flights77.8%
- Jan–Mar 202654 flights84.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights94.8%
Scale runs 60% to 100%.
By weekday, AS 294 did best on Friday at 93.5% on time and worst on Thursday at 78.3%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AS 294 runs when it is late
AS 294 often beats the schedule: 170 of 320 completed flights, 53%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 44 late arrivals split 12 under half an hour, 14 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 18 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early170 flights53.1%
- Within 15 min106 flights33.1%
- 15–29 min late12 flights3.8%
- 30–59 min late14 flights4.4%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights4.4%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 320 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 64 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 28 still arrived on time. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AS 294
The latest arrival of the period was on 9 November 2025, 8 hours 11 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. Three of the five worst days fell in October 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 9 November 2025 | 8 hours 11 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 October 2025 | 6 hours 56 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 20 September 2025 | 2 hours 48 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 11 October 2025 | 2 hours 25 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 26 October 2025 | 1 hour 58 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why AS 294 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 85% of the 3,384 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 85%National Airspace System
- 11%Carrier
- 4%Late-arriving aircraft
85% 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 2,876 minutes out of 3,384, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,384 delay minutes reported on AS 294.
Cancellations sit at 2.13% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.30%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so 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 86.2% on time with 2.13% cancelled over 328 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- PDX to EWR, every carrier and departure
- EWR to PDX, the return direction
- United Airlines 1802 on the same route83.1%
- Portland International (PDX) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
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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.