Carrier route record

ASOGG→SFO

Alaska Airlines · Kahului to San Francisco

Flights: 268
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 16%
Carriers: 3

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

Alaska on OGG to SFO earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 268 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Alaska's OGG to SFO record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 106 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

87.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 264 completed flights

Avg delay

81 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.75%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

90.4%

Every carrier on OGG to SFO, 1,703 flights

These figures cover 268 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 5 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.

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Carrier by carrier

Alaska against every carrier on OGG to SFO

Alaska flew 268 of the 1,703 flights on OGG to SFO, about 16% of it. Its 87.9% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 90.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 90.9% to Alaska at 87.9%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on OGG to SFO
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
United Airlines	1,313	90.9%	63 min	0.84%	A+
Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample	122	90.2%	49 min	0.00%	A+
Alaska Airlines (this page)thin sample	268	87.9%	81 min	0.75%	A+

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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 10 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am—
8am–11am166 flights90.2%
11am–2pm77 flights80.0%
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am25 flights—

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 80.0% on time against 90.2% for 8am–11am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 166 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Alaska on OGG to SFO through the year

Jan–Mar 2026100 flights82.7%
Apr–Jun 2026106 flights93.3%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights86.9%

Scale runs 75% to 100%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 87.9% on time across 268 flights.

Alaska on OGG to SFO did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 82.7%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 89 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 94.9% on time and Friday the weakest at 82.1%, a spread of 13 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late Alaska on OGG to SFO runs when it is late

The 32 late arrivals split 14 under half an hour, 5 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.

15+ min early59 flights22.3%
Within 15 min173 flights65.5%
15–29 min late14 flights5.3%
30–59 min late5 flights1.9%
1–2 hours late5 flights1.9%
2+ hours late8 flights3.0%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 264 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

A late pushback is often recovered here: of 49 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 19 still arrived on time. Only 2 left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for Alaska on OGG to SFO

The latest arrival of the period was on 15 March 2026, 4 hours 18 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).

The latest arrivals of Alaska on OGG to SFO in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
15 March 2026	4 hours 18 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
4 January 2026	4 hours 17 minutes	Carrier
16 March 2026	3 hours 54 minutes	Carrier
19 February 2026	3 hours 30 minutes	Carrier
5 May 2026	3 hours 22 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why Alaska runs late on this route

Carrier accounts for 52% of the 2,596 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
52%
Late-arriving aircraft
32%
Extreme weather
14%
National Airspace System
3%

Extreme weather accounts for 14% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,596 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,341 of the 2,596 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.75%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.9% 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 2,338 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 86.0% on time across 268 flights, within 2 points 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. 268 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 OGG to SFO

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 268 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 87.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 264 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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