Carrier route record
ASOAK→HNL
Alaska Airlines · Oakland to Honolulu
- Flights
- 242
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 33%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Alaska Airlines.
Alaska on OAK to HNL earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 242 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
Set against the rest of the country, Alaska's OAK to HNL record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 81 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 239 completed flights
Avg delay
48 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.24%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.6%
Every carrier on OAK to HNL, 729 flights
These figures cover 242 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 OAK to HNL
Alaska flew 242 of the 729 flights on OAK to HNL, about 33% of it. Its 85.4% on time is 6 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 79.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Alaska at 85.4% to Hawaiian at 75.8%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Airlines (this page)thin sample | 242 | 85.4% | 48 min | 1.24% | A |
| Southwest Airlines | 365 | 77.0% | 44 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample | 122 | 75.8% | 78 min | 1.64% | B |
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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 242 flights.
- 5am–8am69 flights89.7%
- 8am–11am173 flights83.6%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 89.7% on time for the 5am–8am window against 83.6% for 8am–11am. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 173 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Alaska on OAK to HNL through the year
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights81.8%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights90.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights83.6%
Scale runs 75% to 95%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 85.4% on time across 242 flights.
Quarter by quarter Alaska on OAK to HNL held fairly steady: 81.8% in Jan–Mar 2026, 90.0% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 83.6% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 94.1% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 78.8%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Alaska on OAK to HNL runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 20 of the 35 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 7 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early54 flights22.6%
- Within 15 min150 flights62.8%
- 15–29 min late20 flights8.4%
- 30–59 min late8 flights3.3%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights2.1%
- 2+ hours late2 flights0.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 239 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 27 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 10 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 HNL.
The worst days
Worst days for Alaska on OAK to HNL
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 July 2026, 3 hours 35 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 15 July 2026 | 3 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 August 2026 | 3 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 February 2026 | 1 hour 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 January 2026 | 1 hour 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 August 2026 | 1 hour 47 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why Alaska runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 79% of the 1,672 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 79%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 79%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,327 of the 1,672 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,672 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.24% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
At 2,409 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 74.2% on time across 242 flights, 11 points below 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 11 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 242 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 OAK to HNL
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 242 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 85.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 239 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- OAK to HNL, every carrier
- Alaska on HNL to OAK, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on OAK to HNL77.0%
- Hawaiian Airlines on OAK to HNL75.8%
- Alaska Airlines network-wide record
- Oakland International (OAK) delay statistics
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) delay statistics
- The best day of the week to fly, and why it is the second lever
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
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.