Portland to Boston nonstop
Yes: Alaska and JetBlue fly direct from Portland (PDX) to Boston (BOS) about 4 times a day, year-round.
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- Distance and flight time
- 2,537 miles nonstop, about 5 hr 45 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year: busiest in August 2026 (25 flights a week), quietest in February 2026 (5 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 11 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 11 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 9 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 9 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 6 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 5 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 8 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 11 flights a week
- May 2026: 14 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 24 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 25 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 25 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Alaska 62%, JetBlue 38% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 2,548 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $150 and $350 one way, median $225. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $275 one way, middle half $175 to $400, 3,023 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $250 one way, middle half $175 to $400, 1,965 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $225 one way, middle half $150 to $350, 809 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $225 one way, middle half $150 to $350, 2,548 tickets
Jan to Mar and Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $225 one way) and Jul to Sep trips cost the most (median $275), in the DOT ticket survey for Q3 2024 to Q2 2025. Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Boston to Portland nonstop.
Also nonstop from Portland (PDX)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Denver (DEN) about 14 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 14 times a day
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 11 times a day
- San Francisco (SFO) about 11 times a day
- Chicago (ORD) about 10 times a day
- Phoenix (PHX) about 9 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 8 times a day
- Salt Lake City (SLC) about 7 times a day
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