Carrier route record

ASHNL→LAS

Alaska Airlines · Honolulu to Las Vegas

Flights: 635
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 29%
Carriers: 3

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

Alaska on HNL to LAS sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land roughly 50 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 635 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 902 at 92.6% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Alaska on HNL to LAS from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

73.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 630 completed flights

Avg delay

52 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.47%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

80.9%

Every carrier on HNL to LAS, 2,203 flights

These figures cover 635 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.

Carrier by carrier

Alaska against every carrier on HNL to LAS

Alaska flew 635 of the 2,203 flights on HNL to LAS, about 29% of it. Its 73.7% on time is 7 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 80.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 92.6% to Hawaiian at 72.0%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 92.6% of the time; Hawaiian Airlines manages 72.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 666 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on HNL to LAS
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	902	92.6%	36 min	0.44%	A+
Alaska Airlines (this page)	635	73.7%	52 min	0.47%	C+
Hawaiian Airlines	666	72.0%	63 min	0.15%	C+

The spread between Southwest and Hawaiian is 21 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 21 more arrivals inside the on-time window.

Departure window

When Alaska 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 635 flights.

5am–8am29 flights—
8am–11am152 flights77.0%
11am–2pm120 flights70.9%
2pm–5pm160 flights70.4%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am174 flights74.6%

Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 77.0% on time for the 8am–11am window against 70.4% for 2pm–5pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 174 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Alaska on HNL to LAS through the year

Jan–Mar 2026324 flights68.2%
Apr–Jun 2026311 flights79.3%

Scale runs 60% to 85%. 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 73.7% on time across 635 flights.

Split by quarter, Alaska on HNL to LAS logged 324 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 311 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 73.7% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 87.5% on time and Friday the weakest at 65.5%. 22 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Alaska runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 72% of the 8,561 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
72%
Late-arriving aircraft
22%
National Airspace System
4%
Extreme weather
2%
Security
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 72%, 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 6,196 of the 8,561 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 8,561 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.47%, 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 stage length

What a delay here costs

7.5% 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 roughly 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 2,762 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 return leg runs 73.1% on time across 636 flights, within half a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 635 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 Alaska on HNL to LAS

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 635 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 73.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 630 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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