Carrier route record

ASHNL→OAK

Alaska Airlines · Honolulu to Oakland

Flights: 180
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 25%
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 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, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land roughly 40 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 180 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, 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

73.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 179 completed flights

Avg delay

41 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

82.1%

Every carrier on HNL to OAK, 729 flights

These figures cover 180 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 OAK

Alaska flew 180 of the 729 flights on HNL to OAK, about 25% of it. Its 73.7% on time is 8 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 82.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 88.2% to Alaska at 73.7%. 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%	55 min	0.00%	A+
Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample	184	78.3%	46 min	0.00%	B+
Alaska Airlines (this page)thin sample	180	73.7%	41 min	0.00%	C+

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 180 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm144 flights72.0%
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 72.0% 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 144 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%

Scale runs 65% to 80%. 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 180 flights.

Split by quarter, Alaska on HNL to OAK logged 90 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 90 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.

Delay causes

Why Alaska runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 51% of the 1,934 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
51%
Late-arriving aircraft
32%
Extreme weather
9%
National Airspace System
8%

The largest share of delay minutes, 51%, 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 985 of the 1,934 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,934 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.0% 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 40 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 86.0% on time across 180 flights, 12 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 12 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 180 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. 180 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. 179 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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