Flight number record
AS 49
Alaska Airlines · Anchorage to Honolulu
- Route
- ANC → HNL
- Departs
- 16:00
- Flights
- 318
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 49, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 49 lands a B+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 318 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AS 49's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 60 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 317 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.31%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 318 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Schedule
When AS 49 flies
AS 49 flies ANC to HNL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:00, used on 70 of 318 flights, with 08:20 (36 flights) and 16:01 (35 flights) next.
- Departs 16:0070 flights22.0%
- Departs 08:2036 flights11.3%
- Departs 16:0135 flights11.0%
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 16:00 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and AS 49 runs 11 points better at 83.3%. 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 49 next to ANC to HNL
Every carrier on ANC to HNL combined arrived on time 79.9% of the time across 438 flights, so AS 49 is 3 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.7%, which this flight beats by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS 49thin sample | 318 | 83.3% | 65 min | 0.31% | B+ |
| All Alaska Airlines on ANC–HNL | 438 | 79.9% | 62 min | 0.23% | B+ |
| All carriers on ANC–HNL | 438 | 79.9% | 62 min | 0.23% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines, whole network | 309,844 | 79.7% | 52 min | 1.20% | B |
Across the year
AS 49 quarter by quarter
AS 49 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 76.0%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 64 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 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202550 flights76.0%
- Jan–Mar 202687 flights82.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights84.6%
- Jul–Sep 202660 flights81.7%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, AS 49 did best on Saturday at 91.1% on time and worst on Thursday at 79.1%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AS 49 runs when it is late
AS 49 often beats the schedule: 124 of 317 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 53 late arrivals split 17 under half an hour, 15 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early124 flights39.1%
- Within 15 min140 flights44.2%
- 15–29 min late17 flights5.4%
- 30–59 min late15 flights4.7%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights4.1%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 317 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 61 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 22 still arrived on time. 14 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AS 49
The latest arrival of the period was on 17 November 2025, 4 hours 43 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 17 November 2025 | 4 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 January 2026 | 3 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 December 2025 | 3 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 October 2025 | 2 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 December 2025 | 2 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AS 49 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 3,462 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 23%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,462 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 3,462 delay minutes reported on AS 49.
Cancellations are rare at 0.31%, 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
6.6% 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 2,777 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.
Every one of the 318 flights under AS 49 in the data flew ANC to HNL. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 318 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 49
For a booking, read AS 49 as 83.3% on time with 0.31% cancelled over 318 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
- 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.