Carrier route record
ASHNL→SJC
Alaska Airlines · Honolulu to San Jose
- Flights
- 243
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 30%
- 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 SJC sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 243 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so Alaska on HNL to SJC runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 49 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.4%
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
81.4%
Every carrier on HNL to SJC, 808 flights
These figures cover 243 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Alaska against every carrier on HNL to SJC
Alaska flew 243 of the 808 flights on HNL to SJC, about 30% of it. Its 72.4% on time is 9 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 81.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 88.5% to Alaska at 72.4%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 445 | 88.5% | 42 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample | 120 | 73.1% | 55 min | 0.00% | C+ |
| Alaska Airlines (this page)thin sample | 243 | 72.4% | 56 min | 0.00% | C+ |
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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 28 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm210 flights76.2%
- 2pm–5pm33 flights48.5%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 40% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 76.2% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 48.5%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 210 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Alaska on HNL to SJC through the year
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights66.3%
- Apr–Jun 202692 flights82.6%
- 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 72.4% on time across 243 flights.
Alaska on HNL to SJC did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 82.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 66.1%, a swing of 17 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, Saturday is the strongest day at 82.9% on time and Monday the weakest at 60.0%, a spread of 23 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Alaska on HNL to SJC runs when it is late
The 67 late arrivals split 33 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early40 flights16.5%
- Within 15 min136 flights56.0%
- 15–29 min late33 flights13.6%
- 30–59 min late13 flights5.3%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights7.0%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 243 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
20 of 71 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 28% of them. In the other direction, 16 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 SJC.
The worst days
Worst days for Alaska on HNL to SJC
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 February 2026, 6 hours 14 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 February 2026 | 6 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 February 2026 | 5 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 March 2026 | 3 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 March 2026 | 2 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 April 2026 | 1 hour 50 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Alaska runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 59% of the 3,716 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 5%Extreme weather
- 4%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 59%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,203 of the 3,716 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,716 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
8.6% 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 2,417 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 84.3% on time across 242 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. 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
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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 72.4% 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.
Related
Where to go next
- HNL to SJC, every carrier
- Alaska on SJC to HNL, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on HNL to SJC88.5%
- Hawaiian Airlines on HNL to SJC73.1%
- Alaska Airlines network-wide record
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) delay statistics
- Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International (SJC) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- Connecting flights: how much buffer the data says you need
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.