Carrier route record

ASHNL→LAX

Alaska Airlines · Honolulu to Los Angeles

Flights: 776
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 14%
Carriers: 6

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

Alaska on HNL to LAX draws a D+. 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 776 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 517 at 89.7% on time.

Southwest Airlines is the most reliable of the five carriers covered here at 89.7% on time across 517 flights.

On time

64.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 772 completed flights

Avg delay

48 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.39%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

81.1%

Every carrier on HNL to LAX, 5,458 flights

These figures cover 776 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 LAX

Alaska flew 776 of the 5,458 flights on HNL to LAX, about 14% of it. Its 64.1% on time is 17 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 81.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number five of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 89.7% to Hawaiian at 63.0%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 89.7% of the time; Hawaiian Airlines manages 63.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 619 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on HNL to LAX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	517	89.7%	39 min	0.77%	A+
Delta Air Lines	1,095	88.3%	72 min	0.64%	A+
United Airlines	1,268	87.4%	94 min	0.47%	A+
American Airlines	1,183	84.6%	137 min	0.08%	B+
Alaska Airlines (this page)	776	64.1%	48 min	0.39%	D+
Hawaiian Airlines	619	63.0%	65 min	1.29%	D

The spread between Southwest and Hawaiian is 27 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 27 more arrivals inside the on-time window.

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 27 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am50 flights71.4%
8am–11am104 flights63.5%
11am–2pm309 flights54.0%
2pm–5pm65 flights69.2%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am248 flights74.3%

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 54.0% on time against 74.3% 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 309 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Alaska on HNL to LAX through the year

Oct–Dec 202519 flights—
Jan–Mar 2026362 flights64.8%
Apr–Jun 2026395 flights65.3%

Scale runs 55% to 70%. 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 64.1% on time across 776 flights.

Split by quarter, Alaska on HNL to LAX logged 19 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 362 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 395 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 64.1% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 71.7% on time and Monday the weakest at 56.5%. 15 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 62% of the 13,000 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
62%
Late-arriving aircraft
18%
National Airspace System
15%
Extreme weather
4%
Security
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 62%, 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 8,265 of the 13,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 13,387 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.39%, 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

7.1% 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 2,556 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 67.1% on time across 777 flights, 3 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 3 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 776 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. 776 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 64.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 772 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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