Carrier route record
ASLAX→HNL
Alaska Airlines · Los Angeles to Honolulu
- Flights
- 1,054
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 19%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Alaska Airlines.
Alaska on LAX to HNL draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 1,054 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 1,294 at 84.0% on time.
United Airlines is the most reliable of the five carriers covered here at 84.0% on time across 1,294 flights.
Key figures
On time
65.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,041 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.23%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.2%
Every carrier on LAX to HNL, 5,540 flights
These figures cover 1,054 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.3% 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 LAX to HNL
Alaska flew 1,054 of the 5,540 flights on LAX to HNL, about 19% of it. Its 65.9% on time is 10 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 84.0% to Alaska at 65.9%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 84.0% of the time; Hawaiian Airlines manages 66.6%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 399 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 1,294 | 84.0% | 91 min | 0.31% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines | 1,095 | 80.6% | 83 min | 0.27% | B+ |
| American Airlines | 1,182 | 76.2% | 61 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 516 | 75.5% | 47 min | 0.19% | B+ |
| Hawaiian Airlines | 399 | 66.6% | 99 min | 1.75% | C |
| Alaska Airlines (this page) | 1,054 | 65.9% | 67 min | 1.23% | C |
The spread between United 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.
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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 40 points, against 17 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am233 flights81.8%
- 8am–11am503 flights61.1%
- 11am–2pm1 flights—
- 2pm–5pm32 flights65.6%
- 5pm–8pm177 flights73.9%
- 8pm–5am108 flights41.7%
Scale runs 35% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 41.7% on time, against 81.8% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 503 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Alaska on LAX to HNL through the year
July is the worst month at 58.5% on time, 14 points below June, the best at 72.7%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. August was the busiest month here, with 139 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 71.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 63.0%, a spread of 9 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Alaska on LAX to HNL runs when it is late
The 355 late arrivals split 146 under half an hour, 123 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 86 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early161 flights15.5%
- Within 15 min525 flights50.4%
- 15–29 min late146 flights14.0%
- 30–59 min late123 flights11.8%
- 1–2 hours late45 flights4.3%
- 2+ hours late41 flights3.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,041 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
102 of 363 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 28% of them. In the other direction, 94 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 HNL.
The worst days
Worst days for Alaska on LAX to HNL
The latest arrival of the period was on 9 May 2026, 17 hours 20 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 9 May 2026 | 17 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 April 2026 | 14 hours 39 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 March 2026 | 14 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 March 2026 | 13 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 August 2026 | 13 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why Alaska runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 68% of the 24,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 68%Carrier
- 15%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 68%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 16,000 of the 24,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 23,804 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.23% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.3% 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 2,556 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 65.5% on time across 1,053 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. 1,054 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 LAX to HNL
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 1,054 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 65.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 1,041 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to HNL, every carrier
- Alaska on HNL to LAX, the return leg
- United Airlines on LAX to HNL84.0%
- Delta Air Lines on LAX to HNL80.6%
- American Airlines on LAX to HNL76.2%
- Southwest Airlines on LAX to HNL75.5%
- Hawaiian Airlines on LAX to HNL66.6%
- Alaska Airlines network-wide record
- Los Angeles International (LAX) 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 7.05 million flight records
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.