Flight number record
AA 144
American Airlines · Honolulu to Los Angeles
- Route
- HNL → LAX
- Departs
- 20:30
- Flights
- 357
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 144, check with American Airlines.
AA 144 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 357 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 144's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 101 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights
Avg delay
109 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
2.8%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 357 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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.
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 73 of 357 flights, with 21:51 (67 flights) and 22:45 (46 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 20:3073 flights20.4%
- Departs 21:5167 flights18.8%
- Departs 22:4546 flights12.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
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 70.5%, and AA 144 runs 17 points better at 87.7%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
AA 144 next to HNL to LAX
Every carrier on HNL to LAX combined arrived on time 81.1% of the time across 5,458 flights, so AA 144 is 7 points ahead of it. American flew 1,183 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.6% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 144thin sample | 357 | 87.7% | 109 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All American Airlines on HNL–LAX | 1,183 | 84.6% | 137 min | 0.08% | B+ |
| All carriers on HNL–LAX | 5,458 | 81.1% | 77 min | 0.53% | B+ |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | 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 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.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights89.1%
- Oct–Dec 202584 flights91.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.1%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 144 did best on Wednesday at 95.8% on time and worst on Saturday at 76.9%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 144 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 60% of the 4,801 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.
- 60%Carrier
- 21%Extreme weather
- 13%Late-arriving aircraft
- 5%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 21% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,801 delay minutes reported on AA 144.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% 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 2.8% 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 2,556 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: 87.7% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- HNL to LAX, every carrier and departure
- LAX to HNL, the return direction
- United Airlines 1157 on the same route83.7%
- Delta Air Lines 422 on the same route93.4%
- Delta Air Lines 427 on the same route80.8%
- American Airlines 162 on the same route81.6%
- Delta Air Lines 658 on the same route90.8%
- United Airlines 1169 on the same route91.5%
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.