Flight number record

AS 49

Alaska Airlines · Anchorage to Honolulu

Route: ANC → HNL
Departs: 19:54
Flights: 270
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 270 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AS 49's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 60 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 269 completed flights

Avg delay

70 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.37%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 270 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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.

Schedule

When AS 49 flies

AS 49 flies ANC to HNL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:54, used on 45 of 270 flights, with 08:20 (36 flights) and 16:01 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 19:5445 flights16.7%
Departs 08:2036 flights13.3%
Departs 16:0135 flights13.0%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.

A 19:54 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and AS 49 runs 15 points better at 83.6%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

AS 49 next to ANC to HNL

Every carrier on ANC to HNL combined arrived on time 78.8% of the time across 440 flights, so AS 49 is 5 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight beats by 5 points.

AS 49 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 49thin sample	270	83.6%	70 min	0.37%	B+
All Alaska Airlines on ANC–HNL	440	78.8%	63 min	0.45%	B+
All carriers on ANC–HNL	440	78.8%	63 min	0.45%	B+
Alaska Airlines, whole network	293,372	79.1%	52 min	1.28%	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 92.9% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 76.0%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 68 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 202542 flights92.9%
Oct–Dec 202550 flights76.0%
Jan–Mar 202687 flights82.6%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights84.6%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 49 ranged from 77.8% on Thursday to 89.5% on Saturday. With about 39 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

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 3,062 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
35%
Carrier
32%
National Airspace System
25%
Extreme weather
8%

35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 3,062 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 3,062 delay minutes reported on AS 49.

Cancellations are rare at 0.37%, below the national 1.81% 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

6.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over 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.

The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including SEA to ANC (50), but none flew often enough under AS 49 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ANC to HNL only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 270 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 83.6% on time with 0.37% cancelled over 270 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

Where to go next

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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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