Flight number record
AA 144
American Airlines · Honolulu to Los Angeles
- Route
- HNL → LAX
- Departs
- 20:30
- Flights
- 357
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 144, check with American Airlines.
AA 144 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 about 2.2 hours. That rests on 357 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 144's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 93 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights
Avg delay
131 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 357 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When AA 144 flies
AA 144 flies HNL to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:30, used on 103 of 357 flights, with 21:51 (67 flights) and 22:45 (46 flights) next.
- Departs 20:30103 flights28.9%
- Departs 21:5167 flights18.8%
- Departs 22:4546 flights12.9%
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 20:30 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and AA 144 runs 17 points better at 86.6%. 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 144 next to HNL to LAX
Every carrier on HNL to LAX combined arrived on time 80.3% of the time across 5,540 flights, so AA 144 is 6 points ahead of it. American flew 1,182 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.2% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 144thin sample | 357 | 86.6% | 131 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All American Airlines on HNL–LAX | 1,182 | 82.2% | 135 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| All carriers on HNL–LAX | 5,540 | 80.3% | 76 min | 0.58% | B+ |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 144 quarter by quarter
AA 144 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 91.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 80.0%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 71 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 202530 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202584 flights91.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights87.1%
Scale runs 70% to 95%.
By weekday, AA 144 did best on Monday at 92.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 78.8%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 144 runs when it is late
AA 144 often beats the schedule: 133 of 357 completed flights, 37%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 48 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 20 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early133 flights37.3%
- Within 15 min176 flights49.3%
- 15–29 min late15 flights4.2%
- 30–59 min late20 flights5.6%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.7%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 357 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 61 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 20 still arrived on time. Only 7 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 144
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 June 2026, 20 hours 30 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 June 2026 | 20 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 July 2026 | 18 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 August 2026 | 16 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 April 2026 | 14 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 July 2026 | 3 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 144 runs late
Carrier accounts for 61% of the 6,263 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 61%Carrier
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%National Airspace System
35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,263 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 35 to one. The split is drawn from 6,263 delay minutes reported on AA 144.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.6% 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 2,556 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 357 flights under AA 144 in the data flew HNL to LAX. 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. 357 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 144
For a booking, AA 144 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 86.6% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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- HNL to LAX, every carrier and departure
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- United Airlines 1157 on the same route80.4%
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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.