Carrier route record
ASLAS→HNL
Alaska Airlines · Las Vegas to Honolulu
- Flights
- 636
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 29%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Alaska Airlines.
Alaska on LAS to HNL sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 636 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 902 at 85.6% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Alaska on LAS to HNL runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 45 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 629 completed flights
Avg delay
64 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.10%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
76.9%
Every carrier on LAS to HNL, 2,208 flights
These figures cover 636 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 2 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
Carrier by carrier
Alaska against every carrier on LAS to HNL
Alaska flew 636 of the 2,208 flights on LAS to HNL, about 29% of it. Its 73.1% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 85.6% to Hawaiian at 69.0%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 85.6% of the time; Hawaiian Airlines manages 69.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 670 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 902 | 85.6% | 37 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Alaska Airlines (this page) | 636 | 73.1% | 64 min | 1.10% | C |
| Hawaiian Airlines | 670 | 69.0% | 85 min | 0.15% | C+ |
The spread between Southwest and Hawaiian is 17 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 17 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
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 22 points, against 17 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am101 flights71.4%
- 8am–11am176 flights63.8%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm181 flights70.6%
- 8pm–5am178 flights85.9%
Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is the strongest at 85.9% on time. The full set of windows spans 22 points.
Across the year
Alaska on LAS to HNL through the year
- Jan–Mar 2026324 flights77.3%
- Apr–Jun 2026312 flights68.8%
Scale runs 60% to 85%. 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 73.1% on time across 636 flights.
Split by quarter, Alaska on LAS to HNL logged 324 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 312 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 73.1% annual figure is the one to use.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 82.4% on time and Friday the weakest at 64.4%. 18 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Alaska runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 65% of the 11,000 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.
- 65%Carrier
- 28%Late-arriving aircraft
- 5%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 65%, 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 6,975 of the 11,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 10,801 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.10% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.5% 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 2,762 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 73.7% on time across 635 flights, within half 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. 636 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 LAS to HNL
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 636 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 73.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 629 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LAS to HNL, every carrier
- Alaska on HNL to LAS, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on LAS to HNL85.6%
- Hawaiian Airlines on LAS to HNL69.0%
- Alaska Airlines network-wide record
- Harry Reid International (LAS) delay statistics
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) delay statistics
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.