Carrier route record

ASSFO→OGG

Alaska Airlines · San Francisco to Kahului

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 SFO to OGG 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 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 268 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Alaska's SFO to OGG record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 87 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 265 completed flights

Avg delay

90 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.12%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

86.8%

Every carrier on SFO to OGG, 1,703 flights

These figures cover 268 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 SFO to OGG

Alaska flew 268 of the 1,703 flights on SFO to OGG, about 16% of it. Its 86.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 86.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 87.5% to Hawaiian at 81.0%. 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 SFO to OGG
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
United Airlines	1,313	87.5%	45 min	0.46%	A+
Alaska Airlines (this page)thin sample	268	86.0%	90 min	1.12%	A
Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample	122	81.0%	106 min	0.00%	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 268 flights.

5am–8am98 flights90.7%
8am–11am145 flights84.6%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm25 flights—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 90.7% on time for the 5am–8am window against 84.6% for 8am–11am. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 145 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Alaska on SFO to OGG through the year

Jan–Mar 2026100 flights91.9%
Apr–Jun 2026106 flights84.8%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights78.7%

Scale runs 70% to 95%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 86.0% on time across 268 flights.

Alaska on SFO to OGG did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 91.9% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 78.7%, a swing of 13 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, Tuesday is the strongest day at 91.2% on time and Friday the weakest at 82.5%, a spread of 9 points.

Arrival by arrival

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

Alaska on SFO to OGG often beats the schedule: 84 of 265 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 37 late arrivals split 12 under half an hour, 11 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 14 an hour or more.

15+ min early84 flights31.7%
Within 15 min144 flights54.3%
15–29 min late12 flights4.5%
30–59 min late11 flights4.2%
1–2 hours late6 flights2.3%
2+ hours late8 flights3.0%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 265 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

A late pushback is often recovered here: of 41 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 14 still arrived on time. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for Alaska on SFO to OGG

The latest arrival of the period was on 19 August 2026, 13 hours 4 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.

The latest arrivals of Alaska on SFO to OGG in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
19 August 2026	13 hours 4 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
16 August 2026	6 hours 4 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
20 February 2026	3 hours 3 minutes	Carrier
18 August 2026	2 hours 44 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
5 January 2026	2 hours 21 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why Alaska runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 3,310 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
55%
Carrier
35%
National Airspace System
10%

55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,310 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 55 to one. The split is drawn from 3,310 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,171 of the 3,310 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 1.12% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.3% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.

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 87.9% 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 SFO to OGG

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 86.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 265 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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