Flight number record

AS 784

Alaska Airlines · Portland to Atlanta

Route: PDX → ATL
Departs: 07:00
Flights: 274
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 784, check with Alaska Airlines.

AS 784 lands a B+, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 30 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 274 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.

On time

76.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 273 completed flights

Avg delay

31 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.36%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

1.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 274 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.

Schedule

When AS 784 flies

AS 784 flies PDX to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 116 of 274 flights, with 07:45 (58 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:00116 flights42.3%
Departs 07:4558 flights21.2%

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 07:00 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 13 points worse at 76.2%. 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 784 next to PDX to ATL

Every carrier on PDX to ATL combined arrived on time 88.2% of the time across 1,575 flights, so AS 784 is 12 points behind it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight trails by 3 points.

AS 784 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 784thin sample	274	76.2%	31 min	0.36%	B+
All Alaska Airlines on PDX–ATLthin sample	286	76.8%	31 min	0.35%	B+
All carriers on PDX–ATL	1,575	88.2%	56 min	0.89%	A+
Alaska Airlines, whole network	293,372	79.1%	52 min	1.28%	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 57.6%, a swing of 30 points on roughly 91 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 flights57.6%
Oct–Dec 202585 flights81.2%
Jan–Mar 202612 flights—
Apr–Jun 202685 flights88.1%

Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 784 ranged from 71.8% on Sunday to 80.0% on Thursday. With about 39 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why AS 784 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 60% of the 2,023 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
60%
Carrier
35%
Late-arriving aircraft
5%

The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 704 of the 2,023 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,023 delay minutes reported on AS 784.

Cancellations are rare at 0.36%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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: 12 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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