Flight number record

AS 301

Alaska Airlines · Orlando to Portland

Route: MCO → PDX
Departs: 17:50
Flights: 341
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 301, check with Alaska Airlines.

AS 301 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 341 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AS 301 runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 87 extra late arrivals.

On time

68.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 338 completed flights

Avg delay

59 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.59%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

9.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 341 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.8% 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 301 flies

AS 301 flies MCO to PDX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:50, used on 95 of 341 flights, with 17:13 (63 flights) and 16:29 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 17:5095 flights27.9%
Departs 17:1363 flights18.5%
Departs 16:2936 flights10.6%

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 17:50 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and AS 301 runs level with that at 68.9%. 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 301 next to MCO to PDX

Every carrier on MCO to PDX combined arrived on time 71.1% of the time across 390 flights, so AS 301 is 2 points behind it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight trails by 10 points.

AS 301 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 301thin sample	341	68.9%	59 min	0.59%	C+
All Alaska Airlines on MCO–PDX	390	71.1%	59 min	0.51%	C+
All carriers on MCO–PDX	390	71.1%	59 min	0.51%	C+
Alaska Airlines, whole network	293,372	79.1%	52 min	1.28%	B

Across the year

AS 301 quarter by quarter

AS 301 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 77.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 57.8%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 85 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 flights57.8%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights67.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights75.3%
Apr–Jun 202670 flights77.1%

Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 301 did best on Tuesday at 79.6% on time and worst on Thursday at 56.2%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AS 301 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 6,144 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
31%
National Airspace System
25%
Extreme weather
23%
Carrier
21%
Security
0%

Extreme weather accounts for 23% 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 3.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,144 delay minutes reported on AS 301.

Cancellations are rare at 0.59%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

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. 9.8% 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 2,535 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 FAI to ANC (15), but none flew often enough under AS 301 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MCO to PDX only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 341 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 301

For a booking, read AS 301 as 68.9% on time with 0.59% cancelled over 341 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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