Flight number record
AA 102
American Airlines · Honolulu to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- HNL → DFW
- Departs
- 19:50
- Flights
- 324
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 102, check with American Airlines.
AA 102 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 324 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
74.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 316 completed flights
Avg delay
105 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.85%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 324 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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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Schedule
When AA 102 flies
AA 102 flies HNL to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:50, used on 120 of 324 flights, with 18:36 (76 flights) and 18:41 (44 flights) next.
- Departs 19:50120 flights37.0%
- Departs 18:3676 flights23.5%
- Departs 18:4144 flights13.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 19:50 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and AA 102 runs 6 points better at 74.4%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
AA 102 next to HNL to DFW
Every carrier on HNL to DFW combined arrived on time 80.8% of the time across 702 flights, so AA 102 is 6 points behind it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 102thin sample | 324 | 74.4% | 105 min | 1.85% | C |
| All American Airlines on HNL–DFW | 702 | 80.8% | 121 min | 1.71% | B |
| All carriers on HNL–DFW | 702 | 80.8% | 121 min | 1.71% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 102 quarter by quarter
AA 102 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 93.5% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 60.5%, a swing of 33 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.
- Jul–Sep 20252 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202579 flights60.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights61.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights84.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.5%
Scale runs 50% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 102 did best on Wednesday at 81.4% on time and worst on Friday at 60.9%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 102 runs when it is late
AA 102 often beats the schedule: 115 of 316 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 81 late arrivals split 34 under half an hour, 26 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early115 flights36.4%
- Within 15 min120 flights38.0%
- 15–29 min late34 flights10.8%
- 30–59 min late26 flights8.2%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.3%
- 2+ hours late17 flights5.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 316 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
13 of 60 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. In the other direction, 34 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 DFW.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 102
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 August 2026, 20 hours 27 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 August 2026 | 20 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 June 2026 | 17 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 August 2026 | 16 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 May 2026 | 13 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 March 2026 | 5 hours 29 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 102 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 8,494 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 37%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 8,494 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 17 to one. The split is drawn from 8,494 delay minutes reported on AA 102.
Cancellations sit at 1.85% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.62%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.6% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 3,784 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.
Every one of the 324 flights under AA 102 in the data flew HNL to DFW. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 324 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 AA 102
For a booking, AA 102 is one of the weaker ways to fly HNL to DFW: 6 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
Related
Where to go next
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) delay statistics
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
- Every American Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
A flight number here means American Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
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.