Flight number record

AS 432

Alaska Airlines · San Diego to Tampa

Route: SAN → TPA
Departs: 13:52
Flights: 339
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 432, check with Alaska Airlines.

AS 432 lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 339 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AS 432's record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 40 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

81.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 337 completed flights

Avg delay

67 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.59%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 339 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 432 flies

AS 432 flies SAN to TPA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:52, used on 50 of 339 flights, with 15:12 (45 flights) and 14:21 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 13:5250 flights14.7%
Departs 15:1245 flights13.3%
Departs 14:2135 flights10.3%

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 13:52 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AS 432 runs 3 points better at 81.6%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

AS 432 next to SAN to TPA

Every carrier on SAN to TPA combined arrived on time 80.7% of the time across 615 flights, so AS 432 is about level with it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight beats by 3 points.

AS 432 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 432thin sample	339	81.6%	67 min	0.59%	B+
All Alaska Airlines on SAN–TPAthin sample	364	82.3%	68 min	0.82%	B+
All carriers on SAN–TPA	615	80.7%	60 min	0.65%	B+
Alaska Airlines, whole network	293,372	79.1%	52 min	1.28%	B

Across the year

AS 432 quarter by quarter

AS 432 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 87.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 72.7%, a swing of 14 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 flights82.2%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights85.6%
Jan–Mar 202688 flights72.7%
Apr–Jun 202669 flights87.0%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 432 did best on Saturday at 91.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 75.0%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AS 432 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 4,162 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
55%
Carrier
27%
National Airspace System
13%
Extreme weather
6%
Security
0%

55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 4,162 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 4,162 delay minutes reported on AS 432.

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

7.4% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 2,087 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 DEN to ANC (21), but none flew often enough under AS 432 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SAN to TPA only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 339 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 432

For a booking, read AS 432 as 81.6% on time with 0.59% cancelled over 339 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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