Flight number record
AS 271
Alaska Airlines · Honolulu to Ontario
- Route
- HNL → ONT
- Departs
- 14:54
- Flights
- 293
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 271, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 271 sits in the middle of the pack with a B+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 293 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
75.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 292 completed flights
Avg delay
66 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.34%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 293 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AS 271 flies
AS 271 flies HNL to ONT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:54, used on 36 of 293 flights, with 14:25 (35 flights) and 12:38 (33 flights) next.
- Departs 14:5436 flights12.3%
- Departs 14:2535 flights11.9%
- Departs 12:3833 flights11.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 14:54 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and AS 271 runs 3 points better at 75.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
AS 271 next to HNL to ONT
Every carrier on HNL to ONT combined arrived on time 73.9% of the time across 446 flights, so AS 271 is about level with it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.7%, which this flight trails by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS 271thin sample | 293 | 75.3% | 66 min | 0.34% | B+ |
| All Alaska Airlines on HNL–ONT | 365 | 72.5% | 62 min | 0.27% | C+ |
| All carriers on HNL–ONT | 446 | 73.9% | 59 min | 0.22% | C+ |
| Alaska Airlines, whole network | 309,844 | 79.7% | 52 min | 1.20% | B |
Across the year
AS 271 quarter by quarter
AS 271 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 67.0%, a swing of 23 points on roughly 73 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights67.0%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights67.4%
- Apr–Jun 202669 flights89.9%
- Jul–Sep 202613 flights—
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AS 271 did best on Thursday at 87.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 66.7%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AS 271 runs when it is late
The 72 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 20 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 26 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early72 flights24.7%
- Within 15 min148 flights50.7%
- 15–29 min late26 flights8.9%
- 30–59 min late20 flights6.8%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights5.5%
- 2+ hours late10 flights3.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 292 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 68 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. In the other direction, 16 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at ONT.
The worst days
Worst days for AS 271
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 February 2026, 7 hours 27 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 3 February 2026 | 7 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 January 2026 | 3 hours 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 October 2025 | 3 hours 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 May 2026 | 3 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 January 2026 | 3 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AS 271 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 4,749 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 39%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,749 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 16 to one. The split is drawn from 4,749 delay minutes reported on AS 271.
Cancellations are rare at 0.34%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 2,603 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including PDX to ANC (68), but none flew often enough under AS 271 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to HNL to ONT only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 293 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking AS 271
For a booking, read AS 271 as 75.3% on time with 0.34% cancelled over 293 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) delay statistics
- Ontario International (ONT) delay statistics
- Alaska Airlines on-time record
- Every Alaska Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
A flight number here means Alaska Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.