Carrier route record

ASHNL→PHX

Alaska Airlines · Honolulu to Phoenix

Flights: 181
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 14%
Carriers: 4

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

Alaska on HNL to PHX lands a B+, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 181 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 365 at 93.9% on time.

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

80.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 181 completed flights

Avg delay

64 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

85.0%

Every carrier on HNL to PHX, 1,317 flights

These figures cover 181 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 PHX

Alaska flew 181 of the 1,317 flights on HNL to PHX, about 14% of it. Its 80.7% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 85.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 93.9% to Hawaiian at 70.5%. 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 93.9% of the time; American Airlines manages 85.5%. 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	93.9%	29 min	1.64%	A
American Airlines	587	85.5%	125 min	1.36%	A
Alaska Airlines (this page)thin sample	181	80.7%	64 min	0.00%	B+
Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample	184	70.5%	41 min	0.00%	C+

Southwest leads American by 8 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.

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 181 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am87 flights78.2%
11am–2pm94 flights83.0%
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 83.0% on time. The full set of windows spans 5 points.

Across the year

Alaska on HNL to PHX through the year

Jan–Mar 202690 flights78.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights82.4%

Scale runs 70% to 90%. 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 80.7% on time across 181 flights.

Split by quarter, Alaska on HNL to PHX logged 90 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 91 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 80.7% 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 91% of the 2,248 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
91%
National Airspace System
4%
Extreme weather
4%
Late-arriving aircraft
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 91%, 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 2,051 of the 2,248 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,248 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

6.6% 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 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 81.7% on time across 181 flights, within about 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. 181 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. 181 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 80.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 181 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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