Carrier route record

ASSFO→OGG

Alaska Airlines · San Francisco to Kahului

Flights: 206
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 12%
Carriers: 3

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

Alaska on SFO to OGG 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 206 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Alaska's SFO to OGG record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 106 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 204 completed flights

Avg delay

55 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.97%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

88.7%

Every carrier on SFO to OGG, 1,670 flights

These figures cover 206 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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.

Carrier by carrier

Alaska against every carrier on SFO to OGG

Alaska flew 206 of the 1,670 flights on SFO to OGG, about 12% of it. Its 88.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 88.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 89.4% to Hawaiian at 84.1%. 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	1,280	89.4%	40 min	0.39%	A+
Alaska Airlines (this page)thin sample	206	88.2%	55 min	0.97%	A+
Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample	184	84.1%	91 min	0.00%	B+

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 206 flights.

5am–8am98 flights90.7%
8am–11am83 flights89.0%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm25 flights—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 80% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5am–8am window is the strongest at 90.7% on time. The full set of windows spans 2 points.

Across the year

Alaska on SFO to OGG through the year

Jan–Mar 2026100 flights91.9%
Apr–Jun 2026106 flights84.8%

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

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 88.2% on time across 206 flights.

Split by quarter, Alaska on SFO to OGG logged 100 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 106 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 88.2% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 87.1% on time and Friday the weakest at 80.6%. 7 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Alaska runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 61% of the 1,326 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
61%
Late-arriving aircraft
29%
National Airspace System
10%

The largest share of delay minutes, 61%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 808 of the 1,326 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,326 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 90.7% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 0.97% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.4% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 88.2% on time across 206 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. 206 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. 206 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 88.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 204 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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