Flight number record
AS 396
Alaska Airlines · San Diego to Orlando
- Route
- SAN → MCO
- Departs
- 10:03
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 396, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 396 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land roughly 50 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AS 396 runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 45 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 360 completed flights
Avg delay
52 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.27%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 3 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.
Fare search by Aviasales, a Travelpayouts partner. Booking through it may earn this site a commission at no cost to you; it changes no figure here.
Schedule
When AS 396 flies
AS 396 flies SAN to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:03, used on 70 of 364 flights.
- Departs 10:0370 flights19.2%
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 10:03 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and AS 396 runs 11 points worse at 72.8%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Timetable by Aviasales, a Travelpayouts partner. Booking through it may earn this site a commission at no cost to you; it changes no figure here.
Against the route
AS 396 next to SAN to MCO
Every carrier on SAN to MCO combined arrived on time 78.3% of the time across 1,087 flights, so AS 396 is 6 points behind it. Alaska flew 628 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.3% on time. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.7%, which this flight trails by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS 396thin sample | 364 | 72.8% | 52 min | 0.27% | C+ |
| All Alaska Airlines on SAN–MCO | 628 | 78.3% | 48 min | 0.48% | B+ |
| All carriers on SAN–MCO | 1,087 | 78.3% | 46 min | 0.55% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines, whole network | 309,844 | 79.7% | 52 min | 1.20% | B |
Across the year
AS 396 quarter by quarter
AS 396 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 83.5% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 67.0%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 73 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 202592 flights67.0%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights68.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights73.3%
Scale runs 60% to 90%.
By weekday, AS 396 ranged from 68.0% on Saturday to 76.9% on Tuesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AS 396 runs when it is late
AS 396 often beats the schedule: 103 of 360 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 98 late arrivals split 43 under half an hour, 32 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 23 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early103 flights28.6%
- Within 15 min159 flights44.2%
- 15–29 min late43 flights11.9%
- 30–59 min late32 flights8.9%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights4.7%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 360 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 89 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 32 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 41 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at MCO.
The worst days
Worst days for AS 396
The latest arrival of the period was on 24 October 2025, 6 hours 29 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in March 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 24 October 2025 | 6 hours 29 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 September 2025 | 3 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 March 2026 | 3 hours 29 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 28 March 2026 | 2 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 2 hours 41 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why AS 396 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 44% of the 5,063 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%National Airspace System
- 27%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
44% 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 2,220 minutes out of 5,063, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 5,063 delay minutes reported on AS 396.
Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, below the national 1.89% 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
6.4% 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 roughly 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 2,149 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 364 flights under AS 396 in the data flew SAN to MCO. 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. 364 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 396
For a booking, AS 396 is one of the weaker ways to fly SAN to MCO: 6 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.
Related
Where to go next
- SAN to MCO, every carrier and departure
- MCO to SAN, the return direction
- San Diego International (SAN) delay statistics
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Alaska Airlines on-time record
- Every Alaska Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.