Flight number record
AS 742
Alaska Airlines · Phoenix to Portland
- Route
- PHX → PDX
- Departs
- 14:04
- Flights
- 279
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 742, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 742 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 279 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AS 742's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 98 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 279 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 279 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 742 flies
AS 742 flies PHX to PDX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:04, used on 70 of 279 flights, with 13:52 (35 flights) and 13:45 (28 flights) next.
- Departs 14:0470 flights25.1%
- Departs 13:5235 flights12.5%
- Departs 13:4528 flights10.0%
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 14:04 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and AS 742 runs 15 points better at 87.1%. 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 742 next to PHX to PDX
Every carrier on PHX to PDX combined arrived on time 77.4% of the time across 3,768 flights, so AS 742 is 10 points ahead of it. Alaska flew 1,437 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.8% on time. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.7%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS 742thin sample | 279 | 87.1% | 70 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All Alaska Airlines on PHX–PDX | 1,437 | 85.8% | 53 min | 0.35% | A+ |
| All carriers on PHX–PDX | 3,768 | 77.4% | 54 min | 0.45% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines, whole network | 309,844 | 79.7% | 52 min | 1.20% | B |
Across the year
AS 742 quarter by quarter
AS 742 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 93.2% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 73.6%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 70 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 202553 flights73.6%
- Jan–Mar 202673 flights93.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights85.5%
Scale runs 65% to 100%.
By weekday, AS 742 did best on Friday at 95.3% on time and worst on Sunday at 80.0%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AS 742 runs when it is late
AS 742 often beats the schedule: 87 of 279 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 36 late arrivals split 17 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early87 flights31.2%
- Within 15 min156 flights55.9%
- 15–29 min late17 flights6.1%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.9%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.4%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 279 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 49 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 15 still arrived on time. Only 2 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AS 742
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 November 2025, 6 hours 9 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 November 2025 | 6 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 May 2026 | 6 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 August 2026 | 3 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 November 2025 | 3 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 February 2026 | 2 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AS 742 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 68% of the 2,506 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 68%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 2%National Airspace System
68% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,506 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 68 to one. The split is drawn from 2,506 delay minutes reported on AS 742.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.9% 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 1,010 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 279 flights under AS 742 in the data flew PHX 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. 279 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 742
For a booking, AS 742 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.1% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- PHX to PDX, every carrier and departure
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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.