Carrier route record

HAANC→SEA

Hawaiian Airlines · Anchorage to Seattle

Flights: 125
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 2%
Carriers: 3

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

Hawaiian on ANC to SEA earns an F, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 27.9% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 50 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. Late arrivals average a little over an hour. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 125 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 1,630 at 89.1% on time.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Hawaiian on ANC to SEA runs 50 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 497 extra late arrivals.

On time

27.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 122 completed flights

Avg delay

74 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.40%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

85.5%

Every carrier on ANC to SEA, 6,681 flights

These figures cover 125 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

Hawaiian against every carrier on ANC to SEA

Hawaiian flew 125 of the 6,681 flights on ANC to SEA, about 2% of it. Its 27.9% on time is 58 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 85.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 89.1% to Hawaiian at 27.9%.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 3 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.

On-time performance by carrier on ANC to SEA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Delta Air Lines	1,630	89.1%	105 min	0.67%	A+
Alaska Airlines	4,926	85.7%	52 min	1.24%	A
Hawaiian Airlines (this page)thin sample	125	27.9%	74 min	2.40%	F

No carrier stands out. Delta tops the table at 89.1%, 3 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.

Departure window

When Hawaiian runs best on this route

Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 125 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am1 flights—
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm73 flights25.4%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am51 flights30.0%

Scale runs 15% to 35%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is the strongest at 30.0% on time. The full set of windows spans 5 points.

Across the year

Hawaiian on ANC to SEA through the year

Jul–Sep 2025125 flights27.9%

Scale runs 20% to 35%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 27.9% on time across 125 flights.

Split by quarter, Hawaiian on ANC to SEA logged 125 flights in Jul–Sep 2025. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 27.9% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why Hawaiian runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 54% of the 6,532 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.

Carrier
54%
Late-arriving aircraft
44%
Extreme weather
1%
National Airspace System
0%
Security
0%

44% 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 6,532 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 44 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 6,532 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 54%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 3,543 of the 6,532 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 2.40% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 18.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

The 1,448 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 53.7% on time across 123 flights, 26 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 26 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 125 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 Hawaiian on ANC to SEA

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 125 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 27.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 122 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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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