Flight number record
AS 784
Alaska Airlines · Portland to Atlanta
- Route
- PDX → ATL
- Departs
- 07:30
- Flights
- 274
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 784, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 784 lands a B+, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 35 minutes on average. That rests on 274 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
79.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 271 completed flights
Avg delay
36 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.73%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 274 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 784 flies
AS 784 flies PDX to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:30, used on 70 of 274 flights, with 07:45 (58 flights) and 07:00 (55 flights) next.
- Departs 07:3070 flights25.5%
- Departs 07:4558 flights21.2%
- Departs 07:0055 flights20.1%
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 07:30 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AS 784 runs 10 points worse at 79.7%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
AS 784 next to PDX to ATL
Every carrier on PDX to ATL combined arrived on time 88.4% of the time across 1,544 flights, so AS 784 is 9 points behind it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.7%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS 784thin sample | 274 | 79.7% | 36 min | 0.73% | B+ |
| All Alaska Airlines on PDX–ATLthin sample | 286 | 80.2% | 36 min | 0.70% | B+ |
| All carriers on PDX–ATL | 1,544 | 88.4% | 52 min | 0.91% | A+ |
| Alaska Airlines, whole network | 309,844 | 79.7% | 52 min | 1.20% | B |
Across the year
AS 784 quarter by quarter
AS 784 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 88.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 63.3%, a swing of 25 points on roughly 69 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 flights63.3%
- Oct–Dec 202585 flights81.2%
- Jan–Mar 202612 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights88.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights70.0%
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AS 784 did best on Thursday at 87.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 63.2%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AS 784 runs when it is late
AS 784 often beats the schedule: 70 of 271 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 55 late arrivals split 23 under half an hour, 25 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 7 an hour or more. Not one arrived two hours late.
- 15+ min early70 flights25.8%
- Within 15 min146 flights53.9%
- 15–29 min late23 flights8.5%
- 30–59 min late25 flights9.2%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.6%
- 2+ hours late0 flights0.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 271 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 26 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 10 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 39 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 ATL.
The worst days
Worst days for AS 784
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 October 2025, 1 hour 26 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 October 2025 | 1 hour 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 July 2026 | 1 hour 23 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 6 July 2026 | 1 hour 9 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 7 October 2025 | 1 hour 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 July 2026 | 1 hour 1 minute | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why AS 784 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 69% of the 1,987 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 69%National Airspace System
- 24%Carrier
- 7%Late-arriving aircraft
69% 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 1,365 minutes out of 1,987, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 1,987 delay minutes reported on AS 784.
Cancellations are rare at 0.73%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.6% 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.
At 2,172 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 two other city pairs in the data, including DEN to SEA (1) and SEA to BUR (1), but none flew often enough under AS 784 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to PDX to ATL only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 274 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 784
For a booking, AS 784 is one of the weaker ways to fly PDX to ATL: 9 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.
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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.