Carrier route record
ASPDX→DFW
Alaska Airlines · Portland to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 493
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 20%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Alaska Airlines.
Alaska on PDX to DFW lands a B+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 45 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 493 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Alaska's PDX to DFW record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 59 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 484 completed flights
Avg delay
46 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.81%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
80.7%
Every carrier on PDX to DFW, 2,412 flights
These figures cover 493 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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.
Carrier by carrier
Alaska against every carrier on PDX to DFW
Alaska flew 493 of the 2,412 flights on PDX to DFW, about 20% of it. Its 83.5% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Alaska at 83.5% to American at 80.0%.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Airlines (this page) | 493 | 83.5% | 46 min | 0.81% | B+ |
| American Airlines | 1,919 | 80.0% | 105 min | 3.18% | B− |
Flight by flight
Alaska flight numbers on PDX to DFW
Departure window
When Alaska runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am139 flights91.2%
- 11am–2pm214 flights72.2%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am140 flights93.3%
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 72.2% on time against 93.3% for 8pm–5am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 214 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Alaska on PDX to DFW through the year
July is the worst month at 73.3% on time, 24 points below March, the best at 96.8%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. July was the busiest month here, with 61 flights.
Across the week, Sunday is the strongest day at 90.5% on time and Saturday the weakest at 71.2%. 19 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Alaska runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 47% of the 3,651 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.
- 47%National Airspace System
- 32%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
47% 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 1,719 minutes out of 3,651, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,651 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.81%, 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 stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.3% 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 1,616 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 return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 75.5% on time across 493 flights, 8 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 8 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 493 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 Alaska on PDX to DFW
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 493 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 83.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 484 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PDX to DFW, every carrier
- Alaska on DFW to PDX, the return leg
- American Airlines on PDX to DFW80.0%
- Alaska Airlines network-wide record
- Portland International (PDX) delay statistics
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.