Flight number record

AS 396

Alaska Airlines · San Diego to Orlando

Route: SAN → MCO
Departs: 09:00
Flights: 314
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land roughly 55 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 314 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AS 396 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 56 extra late arrivals.

On time

72.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 311 completed flights

Avg delay

53 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.32%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 314 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 396 flies

AS 396 flies SAN to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:00, used on 45 of 314 flights, with 10:35 (36 flights) and 09:11 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 09:0045 flights14.3%
Departs 10:3536 flights11.5%
Departs 09:1135 flights11.1%

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 09:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and AS 396 runs 12 points worse at 72.0%. 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 396 next to SAN to MCO

Every carrier on SAN to MCO combined arrived on time 77.0% of the time across 1,067 flights, so AS 396 is 5 points behind it. Alaska flew 629 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.5% on time. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight trails by 7 points.

AS 396 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 396thin sample	314	72.0%	53 min	0.32%	C+
All Alaska Airlines on SAN–MCO	629	76.5%	50 min	0.79%	B+
All carriers on SAN–MCO	1,067	77.0%	48 min	0.75%	B+
Alaska Airlines, whole network	293,372	79.1%	52 min	1.28%	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 Jul–Sep 2025 at 65.9%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 79 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 202542 flights65.9%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights67.0%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights68.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.5%

Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 396 did best on Tuesday at 77.8% on time and worst on Saturday at 63.6%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AS 396 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 44% of the 4,639 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
44%
Late-arriving aircraft
27%
Carrier
19%
Extreme weather
8%
Security
1%

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 2,060 minutes out of 4,639, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,639 delay minutes reported on AS 396.

Cancellations are rare at 0.32%, 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

7.1% 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 roughly 55 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 314 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. 314 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: 5 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.

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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