Flights Portland → Santa Barbara
PDX → SBA
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Portland (PDX) → Santa Barbara (SBA) route is operated by Alaska Airlines. Across 112 flights monitored in recent months, 91% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 4 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.00%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 8.7/100 (low), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Santa Barbara the average ATFM delay is 3.6 minutes (main cause: airspace/NAS (BTS)). Departing from Portland the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Santa Barbara: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Portland (PDX) to Santa Barbara (SBA) heads south for about 1,263 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 60m.
Departures from Portland on this leg cluster in the morning window: about 85% of PDX-SBA flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Portland the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Santa Barbara it is 3.6 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)).
Across 112 tracked PDX-SBA flights, 91% left on time with an average delay of 4 min and a 0.0% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Airlines (AS) | 67% | 10 min | 11.9% |
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On the Portland (PDX) -> Santa Barbara (SBA) route, on-time performance is 91% with an average delay of 4 minutes, based on 112 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Portland-Santa Barbara is 0.00% across 112 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Alaska Airlines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
