Carrier route record

ASPHX→HNL

Alaska Airlines · Phoenix to Honolulu

Flights: 243
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 18%
Carriers: 4

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

Alaska on PHX to HNL lands a B+, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 243 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 365 at 81.0% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Alaska on PHX to HNL from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

78.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 242 completed flights

Avg delay

55 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.41%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

79.4%

Every carrier on PHX to HNL, 1,317 flights

These figures cover 243 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 PHX to HNL

Alaska flew 243 of the 1,317 flights on PHX to HNL, about 18% of it. Its 78.9% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 79.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Hawaiian at 83.6% to American at 77.6%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 3 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.

On-time performance by carrier on PHX to HNL
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample	122	83.6%	85 min	0.00%	B+
Southwest Airlines	365	81.0%	36 min	0.00%	B+
Alaska Airlines (this page)thin sample	243	78.9%	55 min	0.41%	B+
American Airlines	587	77.6%	80 min	0.51%	B+

No carrier stands out. Southwest tops the table at 81.0%, 3 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.

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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 243 flights.

5am–8am111 flights79.3%
8am–11am132 flights78.6%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5am–8am window is the strongest at 79.3% on time. The full set of windows spans half a point.

Across the year

Alaska on PHX to HNL through the year

Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights81.1%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights71.0%

Scale runs 65% to 90%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 78.9% on time across 243 flights.

Alaska on PHX to HNL did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 82.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 71.0%, a swing of 11 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, Wednesday is the strongest day at 94.1% on time and Thursday the weakest at 64.7%, a spread of 29 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late Alaska on PHX to HNL runs when it is late

Alaska on PHX to HNL often beats the schedule: 95 of 242 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 51 late arrivals split 17 under half an hour, 23 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.

15+ min early95 flights39.3%
Within 15 min96 flights39.7%
15–29 min late17 flights7.0%
30–59 min late23 flights9.5%
1–2 hours late6 flights2.5%
2+ hours late5 flights2.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 242 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

7 of 34 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. In the other direction, 24 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 PHX to HNL

The latest arrival of the period was on 27 January 2026, 4 hours 38 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.

The latest arrivals of Alaska on PHX to HNL in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
27 January 2026	4 hours 38 minutes	Carrier
24 July 2026	3 hours 48 minutes	Carrier
24 April 2026	3 hours 17 minutes	Carrier
15 March 2026	2 hours 43 minutes	Carrier
1 January 2026	2 hours 10 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why Alaska runs late on this route

Carrier accounts for 76% of the 2,825 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
76%
National Airspace System
20%
Extreme weather
2%
Security
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 76%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,141 of the 2,825 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,825 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.41%, 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 4.5% 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 2,917 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 77.0% on time across 243 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. 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

Booking Alaska on PHX to HNL

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 78.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 242 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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