Flight number record

AS 560

Alaska Airlines · Los Angeles to Kailua-Kona

Route: LAX → KOA
Departs: 08:30
Flights: 343
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 560, check with Alaska Airlines.

AS 560 lands a B+, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 45 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 343 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.

On time

76.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 338 completed flights

Avg delay

43 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.87%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 343 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.

Schedule

When AS 560 flies

AS 560 flies LAX to KOA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:30, used on 78 of 343 flights, with 08:07 (45 flights) and 09:26 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:3078 flights22.7%
Departs 08:0745 flights13.1%
Departs 09:2635 flights10.2%

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 08:30 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and AS 560 runs 8 points worse at 76.0%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

AS 560 next to LAX to KOA

Every carrier on LAX to KOA combined arrived on time 81.8% of the time across 1,606 flights, so AS 560 is 6 points behind it. Across its whole network Alaska Airlines managed 79.1%, which this flight trails by 3 points.

AS 560 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AS 560thin sample	343	76.0%	43 min	0.87%	B+
All Alaska Airlines on LAX–KOA	374	76.4%	42 min	1.07%	B
All carriers on LAX–KOA	1,606	81.8%	50 min	0.87%	B+
Alaska Airlines, whole network	293,372	79.1%	52 min	1.28%	B

Across the year

AS 560 quarter by quarter

AS 560 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 88.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 70.7%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 86 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 202592 flights70.7%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights72.7%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights75.0%
Apr–Jun 202670 flights88.6%

Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AS 560 ranged from 70.2% on Saturday to 81.2% on Friday. With about 49 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why AS 560 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 62% of the 3,446 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.

National Airspace System
62%
Carrier
34%
Late-arriving aircraft
3%
Extreme weather
2%
Security
0%

62% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 2,126 minutes out of 3,446, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,446 delay minutes reported on AS 560.

Cancellations are rare at 0.87%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

At 2,504 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 MSO (21), but none flew often enough under AS 560 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LAX to KOA only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 343 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 560

For a booking, AS 560 is one of the weaker ways to fly LAX to KOA: 6 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.

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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