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Alaska Airlines PDX to SFO on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
70%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.4%
6 flights
Avg arrival delay
18 min
54 min when late
Rank on route
#3 of 4
route average 69% on time

Key facts

  • Alaska Airlines flights on PDX to SFO arrived on time 70% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.4% were cancelled, and 7% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #3 of 4 airlines on this route, which averaged 69% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was air traffic control & airport congestion (64%).

On-time trend by month

30%65%100%July 2025: 76.0% on time, 1.6% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 79.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 90.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 70.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 82.9% on time, 1.8% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 68.2% on time, 0.9% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 82.5% on time, 1.7% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 73.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 90.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 65.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 41.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 48.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 48.3% on time, 0.8% 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 congestion64%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)19%
  • Late-arriving aircraft16%
  • Security0%
  • Extreme weather0%

Other airlines on PDX to SFO

Full PDX to SFO comparison →
Alaska Airlines on-time record across all routes →

1,379 Alaska Airlines flights tracked on this route; 6 cancelled, 1 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.