Flight profile · Alaska Airlines
AS286
Los Angeles (LAX) to Newark (EWR) · scheduled 10:20 AM – 6:59 PM
How AS286 performs
650 operations, July 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on LAX → EWR, AS286 averaged about 4 operations a week (650 in 1,158 days, cancelled ones included).
AS286 arrived on time 72.1% of the time, against 79.4% for all LAX → EWR flights, so this departure is 7.3 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Alaska Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 9.7 points worse.
AS286’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 10:30 AM earlier on, and around 7:00 AM more recently — a 210-minute shift, not the few minutes of day-to-day rounding every published schedule carries. Confirm the current departure time before booking around an older listing.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 650 operations, July 2023 – August 2026 · If AS286 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AS286 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS286 | 72.1% | 2.77% | -4 min | 11.0% | 650 |
| Alaska Airlines on LAX → EWR | 81.8% | 1.90% | -10 min | 7.1% | 2,416 |
| All LAX → EWR flights | 79.4% | 1.94% | -10 min | 8.6% | 16,671 |
AS286 cancelled 18 of 650 operations (2.77%), above the 1.94% for LAX → EWR.
11.0% of AS286’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 8.6% across LAX → EWR, so the long delays are more common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
Why AS286 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AS286 on LAX → EWR. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AS286 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying AS286 came in 15 or more minutes late on 19% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into LAX: 465 of 632 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late |
|---|---|
| AS286 | 19% |
| Network, same turn | 23% |
A long gap on the ground gives a late aircraft room to catch up before this flight pushes back.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 90 minutes to 3 hours. How often AS286’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves LAX late, does that still matter by the time it reaches EWR?
AS286 pushes back an average of 19.4 minutes late and reaches the gate at EWR an average of 12.7 minutes late. The 6.7 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so a late pushback is partly, not fully, made up before the gate. It spends 22.6 minutes on the taxiways at LAX, 3.0 minutes longer than a typical LAX departure in the same hour.
On arrival at EWR, AS286 spends 13.2 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is 3.1 minutes longer than a typical EWR arrival (10.1 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 41,910 LAX departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 397,792 arrivals at EWR. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves LAX
AS286 has one departure time, 10:20 AM, so this is what that hour at LAX is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 41,910 departures from LAX are scheduled in the 10 AM–11 AM hour over the period, against 611,647 across the whole day.
AS286 is scheduled out of LAX at 10:20 AM, in the 10 AM–11 AM bank. Departures from LAX in that hour arrive on time 79.7% of the time against 81.3% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour AS286 leaves in is an ordinary one for LAX and explains nothing about its record either way.
Both airport figures cover every destination from LAX, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes AS286 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AS286 also served these 5 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| BZN→SEA Bozeman to Seattle | June 10, 2026 – August 18, 2026 | 70 | — |
| SEA→EWR Seattle to Newark | April 22, 2026 – May 12, 2026 | 21 | — |
| SEA→LAX Seattle to Los Angeles | March 8, 2026 | 1 | — |
| SEA→GEG Seattle to Spokane | October 26, 2025 – February 11, 2026 | 62 | — |
| SAN→LAS San Diego to Las Vegas | January 11, 2025 | 1 | — |
The figures above describe only LAX → EWR, the route AS286 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
68 min late
against a median of 4 min early
AS286 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 4 min early, but the worst tenth are 72 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 650 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS284 | Alaska Airlines | 84.9% | 12 min early | 949 |
| B61574 | JetBlue | 80.2% | 8 min early | 611 |
| UA2096 | United Airlines | 80.0% | 9 min early | 842 |
| UA1700 | United Airlines | 79.2% | 16 min early | 912 |
| AS286 this flight | Alaska Airlines | 72.1% | 4 min early | 650 |
| B61874 | JetBlue | 69.9% | 6 min early | 600 |
| UA1855 | United Airlines | 64.4% | 3 min late | 637 |
Among all 7 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AS286 has the 5th highest on-time rate, 12.8 points behind the best. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 650 records of AS286 operating LAX → EWR, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule; cancelled and diverted flights are reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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