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Alaska Airlines PDX to BOS on-time performance

Alaska Airlines nonstop flights from Portland to Boston · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
81%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.8%
4 flights
Avg arrival delay
8 min
37 min when late
Rank on route
#1 of 2
route average 79% on time

Key facts

  • Alaska Airlines flights on PDX to BOS arrived on time 81% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.8% were cancelled, and 2% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #1 of 2 airlines on this route, which averaged 79% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was air traffic control & airport congestion (57%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 82.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 80.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 74.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 66.0% on time, 2.1% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 89.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 79.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 82.1% on time, 6.7% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 100.0% on time, 4.5% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 91.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 84.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 82.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 85.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 73.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Air traffic control & airport congestion57%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)29%
  • Late-arriving aircraft13%
  • Extreme weather1%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on PDX to BOS

533 Alaska Airlines flights tracked on this route; 4 cancelled, 2 diverted.

Data: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 (12 months). Latest month published by BTS: July 2026. How we calculate this.