Flight number record
AS 712
Alaska Airlines · Santa Ana to Portland
- Route
- SNA → PDX
- Departs
- 14:05
- Flights
- 307
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 712, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 712 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 14 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 35 minutes. That rests on 307 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AS 712's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 138 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 302 completed flights
Avg delay
33 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.63%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
1.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 307 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 712 flies
AS 712 flies SNA to PDX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:05, used on 70 of 307 flights, with 13:55 (36 flights) and 14:12 (35 flights) next.
- Departs 14:0570 flights22.8%
- Departs 13:5536 flights11.7%
- Departs 14:1235 flights11.4%
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 14:05 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and AS 712 runs 19 points better at 91.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
AS 712 next to SNA to PDX
Every carrier on SNA to PDX combined arrived on time 93.2% of the time across 1,543 flights, so AS 712 is 2 points behind it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.7%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS 712thin sample | 307 | 91.1% | 33 min | 1.63% | A |
| All Alaska Airlines on SNA–PDX | 1,543 | 93.2% | 42 min | 1.04% | A |
| All carriers on SNA–PDX | 1,543 | 93.2% | 42 min | 1.04% | A |
| Alaska Airlines, whole network | 309,844 | 79.7% | 52 min | 1.20% | B |
Across the year
AS 712 quarter by quarter
AS 712 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 94.5% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 82.5%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 77 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.
- Oct–Dec 202565 flights82.5%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights94.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights94.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights90.2%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, AS 712 did best on Saturday at 100.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 83.7%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AS 712 runs when it is late
AS 712 often beats the schedule: 134 of 302 completed flights, 44%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 16 of the 27 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 3 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early134 flights44.4%
- Within 15 min141 flights46.7%
- 15–29 min late16 flights5.3%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.6%
- 1–2 hours late2 flights0.7%
- 2+ hours late1 flights0.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 302 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 42 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 18 still arrived on time. Only 3 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AS 712
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 March 2026, 2 hours 17 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 22 March 2026 | 2 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 May 2026 | 1 hour 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 July 2026 | 1 hour 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 June 2026 | 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 August 2026 | 43 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AS 712 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 74% of the 892 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 74%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Carrier
- 4%National Airspace System
74% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 892 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 74 to one. The split is drawn from 892 delay minutes reported on AS 712.
Cancellations sit at 1.63% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 859 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
Every one of the 307 flights under AS 712 in the data flew SNA to PDX. 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. 307 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 712
For a booking, read AS 712 as 91.1% on time with 1.63% cancelled over 307 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.