Carrier route record
ASHNL→LAX
Alaska Airlines · Honolulu to Los Angeles
- Flights
- 1,053
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 19%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Alaska Airlines.
Alaska on HNL to LAX draws a C+. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is roughly 50 minutes behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 1,053 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 516 at 88.5% on time.
Southwest Airlines is the most reliable of the five carriers covered here at 88.5% on time across 516 flights.
Key figures
On time
65.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,046 completed flights
Avg delay
49 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.57%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.3%
Every carrier on HNL to LAX, 5,540 flights
These figures cover 1,053 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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Carrier by carrier
Alaska against every carrier on HNL to LAX
Alaska flew 1,053 of the 5,540 flights on HNL to LAX, about 19% of it. Its 65.5% on time is 15 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 80.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number five of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 88.5% to Hawaiian at 64.0%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 88.5% of the time; Hawaiian Airlines manages 64.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 400 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 516 | 88.5% | 36 min | 0.58% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines | 1,095 | 87.8% | 67 min | 0.73% | A+ |
| United Airlines | 1,294 | 85.8% | 87 min | 0.54% | A+ |
| American Airlines | 1,182 | 82.2% | 135 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines (this page) | 1,053 | 65.5% | 49 min | 0.57% | C+ |
| Hawaiian Airlines | 400 | 64.0% | 71 min | 2.00% | D |
The spread between Southwest and Hawaiian is 25 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 25 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
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Departure window
When Alaska runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 20 points, against 25 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am50 flights71.4%
- 8am–11am157 flights68.8%
- 11am–2pm433 flights55.3%
- 2pm–5pm65 flights69.2%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am348 flights75.2%
Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 55.3% on time against 75.2% for 8pm–5am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 433 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Alaska on HNL to LAX through the year
Delays peak in May, when the on-time rate falls to 55.9%. February is the strongest month at 75.7%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 20 points. August was the busiest month here, with 139 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 72.9% on time and Thursday the weakest at 58.3%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Alaska on HNL to LAX runs when it is late
The 361 late arrivals split 177 under half an hour, 108 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 76 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early106 flights10.1%
- Within 15 min579 flights55.4%
- 15–29 min late177 flights16.9%
- 30–59 min late108 flights10.3%
- 1–2 hours late43 flights4.1%
- 2+ hours late33 flights3.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,046 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
59 of 292 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. In the other direction, 128 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 LAX.
The worst days
Worst days for Alaska on HNL to LAX
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 May 2026, 10 hours 45 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in January 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 May 2026 | 10 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 January 2026 | 7 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 January 2026 | 4 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 January 2026 | 3 hours 56 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 March 2026 | 3 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why Alaska runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 58% of the 18,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 58%Carrier
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 58%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 10,000 of the 18,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 17,670 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.57%, below the national 1.89% 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
7.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so 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 2,556 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 65.9% on time across 1,054 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. 1,053 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 LAX
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 1,053 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 65.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 1,046 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- HNL to LAX, every carrier
- Alaska on LAX to HNL, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on HNL to LAX88.5%
- Delta Air Lines on HNL to LAX87.8%
- United Airlines on HNL to LAX85.8%
- American Airlines on HNL to LAX82.2%
- Hawaiian Airlines on HNL to LAX64.0%
- Alaska Airlines network-wide record
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) delay statistics
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.