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Alaska Airlines PDX to SMF on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
93%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.8%
3 flights
Avg arrival delay
5 min
47 min when late
Rank on route
#1 of 3
route average 82% on time

Key facts

  • Alaska Airlines flights on PDX to SMF arrived on time 93% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.8% were cancelled, and 2% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #1 of 3 airlines on this route, which averaged 82% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (71%).

On-time trend by month

60%80%100%October 2025: 100.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 77.8% on time, 18.2% cancelledNov ’25January 2026: 94.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 95.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 91.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 97.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 100.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 88.2% on time, 1.9% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 85.5% 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

  • Late-arriving aircraft71%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)20%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion9%
  • Extreme weather0%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on PDX to SMF

390 Alaska Airlines flights tracked on this route; 3 cancelled, 0 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.