Flight number record

AS 50

Alaska Airlines · Honolulu to Anchorage

Route: HNL → ANC
Departs: 23:29
Flights: 251
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 50, check with Alaska Airlines.

AS 50 lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 251 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

On time

77.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 250 completed flights

Avg delay

58 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.40%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 251 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Schedule

When AS 50 flies

AS 50 flies HNL to ANC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 23:29, used on 40 of 251 flights, with 23:03 (39 flights) and 22:23 (33 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 23:2940 flights15.9%
Departs 23:0339 flights15.5%
Departs 22:2333 flights13.1%

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 23:29 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and AS 50 runs 7 points better at 77.2%. 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 50 next to HNL to ANC

Every carrier on HNL to ANC combined arrived on time 70.0% of the time across 440 flights, so AS 50 is 7 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight trails by 2 points.

AS 50 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 50thin sample	251	77.2%	58 min	0.40%	B+
All Alaska Airlines on HNL–ANC	440	70.0%	57 min	0.91%	C+
All carriers on HNL–ANC	440	70.0%	57 min	0.91%	C+
Alaska Airlines, whole network	293,372	79.1%	52 min	1.28%	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 Jul–Sep 2025 at 70.7%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 63 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 flights70.7%
Oct–Dec 202550 flights72.0%
Jan–Mar 202668 flights73.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.7%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 50 did best on Wednesday at 90.2% on time and worst on Saturday at 60.5%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 30 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AS 50 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 3,298 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Late-arriving aircraft
54%
Carrier
20%
National Airspace System
18%
Extreme weather
8%

54% 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 3,298 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 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 3,298 delay minutes reported on AS 50.

Cancellations are rare at 0.40%, 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

7.2% 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 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 251 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. 251 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 77.2% on time with 0.40% cancelled over 251 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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