Flight number record
AS 560
Alaska Airlines · Los Angeles to Kailua-Kona
- Route
- LAX → KOA
- Departs
- 09:26
- Flights
- 294
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AS 560, check with Alaska Airlines.
AS 560 lands a B, 3 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 40 minutes on average. That rests on 294 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
Key figures
On time
80.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 288 completed flights
Avg delay
39 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.02%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 294 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When AS 560 flies
AS 560 flies LAX to KOA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:26, used on 35 of 294 flights, with 08:07 (33 flights) next.
- Departs 09:2635 flights11.9%
- Departs 08:0733 flights11.2%
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 09:26 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and AS 560 runs 4 points worse at 80.2%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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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 1,601 flights, so AS 560 is 2 points behind 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 560thin sample | 294 | 80.2% | 39 min | 1.02% | B |
| All Alaska Airlines on LAX–KOA | 374 | 78.7% | 37 min | 1.07% | B |
| All carriers on LAX–KOA | 1,601 | 81.8% | 52 min | 0.94% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines, whole network | 309,844 | 79.7% | 52 min | 1.20% | B |
Across the year
AS 560 quarter by quarter
AS 560 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 72.7%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 74 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 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights72.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights75.0%
- Apr–Jun 202670 flights88.6%
- Jul–Sep 202613 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AS 560 did best on Friday at 85.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 73.2%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AS 560 runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 35 of the 57 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 8 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early58 flights20.1%
- Within 15 min173 flights60.1%
- 15–29 min late35 flights12.2%
- 30–59 min late14 flights4.9%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.7%
- 2+ hours late3 flights1.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 288 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 27 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 9 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 39 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at KOA.
The worst days
Worst days for AS 560
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 September 2025, 2 hours 47 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2025 | 2 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 September 2025 | 2 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 February 2026 | 2 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 January 2026 | 1 hour 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 October 2025 | 1 hour 50 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AS 560 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 64% of the 2,244 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 64%National Airspace System
- 29%Carrier
- 4%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%Extreme weather
64% 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 1,441 minutes out of 2,244, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,244 delay minutes reported on AS 560.
Cancellations sit at 1.02% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.02%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 two other city pairs in the data, including SFO to SNA (38) and SEA to MSO (25), 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. 294 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, read AS 560 as 80.2% on time with 1.02% cancelled over 294 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to KOA, every carrier and departure
- KOA to LAX, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 311 on the same route81.1%
- United Airlines 2373 on the same route90.6%
- American Airlines 59 on the same route77.0%
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Alaska Airlines on-time record
- Every Alaska Airlines flight number with a record
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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.