OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Portland to Burbank

817 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on PDX–BUR arrive on time 84% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate84%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay20 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.1%of scheduled flights

based on 885 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Alaska Airlines
    On-time84%
    Medianon time
    p9020 min
    Cancel1.1%
    Flights885

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline37%
  • Weather1%
  • Air traffic (NAS)22%
  • Late aircraft40%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly PDX → BUR

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 88% on time.

  • Mornings88% on time · p90 15 min · 758 flights
  • Afternoons80% on time · p90 25 min · 590 flights
  • Middays79% on time · p90 25 min · 447 flights
  • Evenings78% on time · p90 40 min · 1,366 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 79% to 85% on time.

  • Saturdays85% on time · p90 20 min · 388 flights
  • Wednesdays82% on time · p90 20 min · 437 flights
  • Tuesdays81% on time · p90 30 min · 435 flights
  • Mondays81% on time · p90 30 min · 471 flights
  • Sundays81% on time · p90 30 min · 481 flights
  • Fridays80% on time · p90 35 min · 472 flights
  • Thursdays79% on time · p90 30 min · 477 flights
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.