Flight profile · Alaska Airlines
AS396
San Diego (SAN) to Orlando (MCO) · scheduled 10:50 AM – 6:17 PM
How AS396 performs
616 operations, July 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on SAN → MCO, AS396 averaged about 4 operations a week (616 in 1,158 days, cancelled ones included).
AS396 arrived on time 76.4% of the time, level with the 75.9% for all SAN → MCO flights: on arrival punctuality it is a typical departure on this route, neither better nor worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 616 operations, July 2023 – August 2026 · If AS396 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AS396 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS396 | 76.4% | 1.46% | -7 min | 6.0% | 616 |
| Alaska Airlines on SAN → MCO | 76.4% | 1.31% | -5 min | 6.2% | 1,912 |
| All SAN → MCO flights | 75.9% | 1.45% | -4 min | 6.1% | 2,558 |
AS396 cancelled 9 of 616 operations (1.46%), close to the 1.45% for SAN → MCO.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
Why AS396 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AS396 on SAN → MCO. 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 AS396 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying AS396 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 SAN: 529 of 607 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 |
|---|---|
| AS396 | 19% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
63 scheduled minutes is enough to clean and board when the aircraft is on time, with little to spare when it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often AS396’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as 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 SAN late, does that still matter by the time it reaches MCO?
AS396 pushes back an average of 9.1 minutes late and reaches the gate at MCO an average of 2.5 minutes late. The 6.6 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 23.8 minutes on the taxiways at SAN, 1.6 minutes longer than a typical SAN departure in the same hour.
On arrival at MCO, AS396 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 2.3 minutes longer than a typical MCO arrival (10.9 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 22,118 SAN departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 510,310 arrivals at MCO. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves SAN
AS396 has one departure time, 10:50 AM, so this is what that hour at SAN is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 22,118 departures from SAN are scheduled in the 10 AM–11 AM hour over the period, against 307,047 across the whole day.
AS396 is scheduled out of SAN at 10:50 AM, in the 10 AM–11 AM bank. Departures from SAN in that hour arrive on time 80.1% of the time against 77.5% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour AS396 leaves in is an ordinary one for SAN and explains nothing about its record either way.
Both airport figures cover every destination from SAN, 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 AS396 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AS396 also served these 6 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHX→PAE Phoenix to Everett | June 12, 2025 – August 19, 2025 | 68 | — |
| IAD→SEA Washington to Seattle | April 20, 2024 – June 11, 2025 | 32 | — |
| SFO→LAS San Francisco to Las Vegas | August 21, 2024 – March 18, 2025 | 154 | 65.8% |
| CVG→SEA Cincinnati / Covington to Seattle | December 24, 2024 | 1 | — |
| PDX→BOS Portland to Boston | November 28, 2024 | 1 | — |
| SEA→OMA Seattle to Omaha | June 13, 2024 – August 19, 2024 | 68 | — |
The figures above describe only SAN → MCO, the route AS396 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
39 min late
against a median of 7 min early
Percentiles over 616 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS396 this flight | Alaska Airlines | 76.4% | 7 min early | 616 |
| AS320 | Alaska Airlines | 71.2% | 2 min early | 657 |
Among all 2 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AS396 has the highest on-time rate. 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 616 records of AS396 operating SAN → MCO, 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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