Carrier route record

ASHNL→PHX

Alaska Airlines · Honolulu to Phoenix

Flights: 243
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 18%
Carriers: 4

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

Alaska on HNL to PHX lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 243 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 365 at 91.2% on time.

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

On time

77.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 243 completed flights

Avg delay

56 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

83.3%

Every carrier on HNL to PHX, 1,317 flights

These figures cover 243 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 PHX

Alaska flew 243 of the 1,317 flights on HNL to PHX, about 18% of it. Its 77.0% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 83.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 91.2% to Hawaiian at 66.1%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 91.2% of the time; American Airlines manages 84.6%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 587 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on HNL to PHX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	365	91.2%	28 min	0.27%	A+
American Airlines	587	84.6%	123 min	1.36%	B
Alaska Airlines (this page)thin sample	243	77.0%	56 min	0.00%	B+
Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample	122	66.1%	39 min	0.00%	C+

Southwest leads American by 7 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.

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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 243 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am87 flights78.2%
11am–2pm156 flights76.3%
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8am–11am window is the strongest at 78.2% on time. The full set of windows spans 2 points.

Across the year

Alaska on HNL to PHX through the year

Jan–Mar 202690 flights78.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights82.4%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights66.1%

Scale runs 60% to 90%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 77.0% on time across 243 flights.

Alaska on HNL to PHX did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 82.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 66.1%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 81 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 91.2% on time and Saturday the weakest at 65.7%, a spread of 26 points.

Arrival by arrival

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

The 56 late arrivals split 27 under half an hour, 14 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 15 an hour or more.

15+ min early37 flights15.2%
Within 15 min150 flights61.7%
15–29 min late27 flights11.1%
30–59 min late14 flights5.8%
1–2 hours late10 flights4.1%
2+ hours late5 flights2.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 243 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

A late pushback is often recovered here: of 58 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 20 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 18 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 PHX.

The worst days

Worst days for Alaska on HNL to PHX

The latest arrival of the period was on 14 April 2026, 6 hours 21 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 April 2026.

The latest arrivals of Alaska on HNL to PHX in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
14 April 2026	6 hours 21 minutes	Carrier
14 March 2026	3 hours 51 minutes	Carrier
23 April 2026	3 hours 29 minutes	Carrier
6 April 2026	3 hours 25 minutes	Carrier
23 July 2026	3 hours 4 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why Alaska runs late on this route

Carrier accounts for 78% of the 3,158 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
78%
National Airspace System
10%
Late-arriving aircraft
9%
Extreme weather
3%

The largest share of delay minutes, 78%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,453 of the 3,158 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,158 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% 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

6.2% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 2,917 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 78.9% on time across 243 flights, within 2 points 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. 243 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 PHX

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 243 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 77.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 243 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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