Flight number record
AS 50
Alaska Airlines · Honolulu to Anchorage
- Route
- HNL → ANC
- Departs
- 21:11
- Flights
- 299
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 50, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 50 lands a B+, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 299 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
79.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 298 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.33%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 299 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 50 flies
AS 50 flies HNL to ANC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:11, used on 70 of 299 flights, with 23:29 (40 flights) and 22:23 (33 flights) next.
- Departs 21:1170 flights23.4%
- Departs 23:2940 flights13.4%
- Departs 22:2333 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 21:11 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and AS 50 runs 9 points better at 79.2%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
AS 50 next to HNL to ANC
Every carrier on HNL to ANC combined arrived on time 73.6% of the time across 438 flights, so AS 50 is 6 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.7%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS 50thin sample | 299 | 79.2% | 58 min | 0.33% | B+ |
| All Alaska Airlines on HNL–ANC | 438 | 73.6% | 59 min | 0.46% | C+ |
| All carriers on HNL–ANC | 438 | 73.6% | 59 min | 0.46% | C+ |
| Alaska Airlines, whole network | 309,844 | 79.7% | 52 min | 1.20% | B |
Across the year
AS 50 quarter by quarter
AS 50 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 85.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 72.0%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 75 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 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202550 flights72.0%
- Jan–Mar 202668 flights73.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.7%
- Jul–Sep 202660 flights83.3%
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AS 50 did best on Wednesday at 91.3% on time and worst on Saturday at 66.7%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AS 50 runs when it is late
AS 50 often beats the schedule: 103 of 298 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 62 late arrivals split 25 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early103 flights34.6%
- Within 15 min133 flights44.6%
- 15–29 min late25 flights8.4%
- 30–59 min late16 flights5.4%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights4.4%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 298 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 73 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 25 still arrived on time. 14 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AS 50
The latest arrival of the period was on 21 December 2025, 3 hours 23 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 21 December 2025 | 3 hours 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 March 2026 | 3 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 December 2025 | 2 hours 56 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 May 2026 | 2 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 May 2026 | 2 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AS 50 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 3,580 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
51% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,580 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 3,580 delay minutes reported on AS 50.
Cancellations are rare at 0.33%, 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
7.0% 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 299 flights under AS 50 in the data flew HNL to ANC. 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. 299 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 50
For a booking, read AS 50 as 79.2% on time with 0.33% cancelled over 299 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.