Carrier route record

ASHNL→OAK

Alaska Airlines · Honolulu to Oakland

Flights: 242
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 33%
Carriers: 3

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

Alaska on HNL to OAK sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land roughly 50 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 242 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Alaska on HNL to OAK from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

74.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 240 completed flights

Avg delay

48 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.41%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

81.2%

Every carrier on HNL to OAK, 729 flights

These figures cover 242 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 OAK

Alaska flew 242 of the 729 flights on HNL to OAK, about 33% of it. Its 74.2% on time is 7 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 81.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 88.2% to Hawaiian at 73.8%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.

On-time performance by carrier on HNL to OAK
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	365	88.2%	53 min	0.00%	A+
Alaska Airlines (this page)thin sample	242	74.2%	48 min	0.41%	C+
Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample	122	73.8%	49 min	0.00%	C+

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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 242 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm206 flights73.0%
2pm–5pm36 flights80.6%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 65% to 85%. 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 73.0% on time against 80.6% for 2pm–5pm. 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 206 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Alaska on HNL to OAK through the year

Jan–Mar 202690 flights72.2%
Apr–Jun 202690 flights75.3%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights75.4%

Scale runs 65% to 80%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 74.2% on time across 242 flights.

Quarter by quarter Alaska on HNL to OAK held fairly steady: 72.2% in Jan–Mar 2026, 75.3% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 75.4% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 3 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 91.4% on time and Friday the weakest at 62.9%, a spread of 29 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late Alaska on HNL to OAK runs when it is late

The 62 late arrivals split 24 under half an hour, 25 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.

15+ min early43 flights17.9%
Within 15 min135 flights56.3%
15–29 min late24 flights10.0%
30–59 min late25 flights10.4%
1–2 hours late10 flights4.2%
2+ hours late3 flights1.3%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 240 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

18 of 67 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 27% of them. In the other direction, 13 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 OAK.

The worst days

Worst days for Alaska on HNL to OAK

The latest arrival of the period was on 11 August 2026, 4 hours 16 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).

The latest arrivals of Alaska on HNL to OAK in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
11 August 2026	4 hours 16 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
14 July 2026	4 hours 12 minutes	Carrier
13 March 2026	2 hours 4 minutes	Extreme weather
16 May 2026	1 hour 45 minutes	Carrier
25 January 2026	1 hour 44 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why Alaska runs late on this route

Carrier accounts for 49% of the 2,955 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
49%
Late-arriving aircraft
35%
National Airspace System
9%
Extreme weather
6%
Security
0%

35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,955 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 2,955 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 49%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,458 of the 2,955 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.41%, 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

5.4% 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 2,409 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 85.4% on time across 242 flights, 11 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 11 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 242 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 OAK

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 242 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 74.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 240 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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