Flight number record
AA 162
American Airlines · Honolulu to Los Angeles
- Route
- HNL → LAX
- Departs
- 15:15
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 162, check with American Airlines.
AA 162 lands a B+, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
79.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 365 completed flights
Avg delay
118 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 162 flies
AA 162 flies HNL to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:15, used on 44 of 365 flights, with 12:41 (42 flights) and 14:13 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 15:1544 flights12.1%
- Departs 12:4142 flights11.5%
- Departs 14:1337 flights10.1%
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 15:15 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and AA 162 runs 7 points better at 79.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
AA 162 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 162 is about level with 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 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 162 | 365 | 79.2% | 118 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| 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 162 quarter by quarter
AA 162 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 76.1%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 73 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 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights76.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights81.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights77.4%
Scale runs 70% to 95%.
By weekday, AA 162 did best on Wednesday at 88.5% on time and worst on Tuesday at 69.2%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 162 runs when it is late
AA 162 often beats the schedule: 109 of 365 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 76 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 23 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 27 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early109 flights29.9%
- Within 15 min180 flights49.3%
- 15–29 min late26 flights7.1%
- 30–59 min late23 flights6.3%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights4.4%
- 2+ hours late11 flights3.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 365 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
16 of 65 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. In the other direction, 27 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 LAX.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 162
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 January 2026, 29 hours 13 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 6 January 2026 | 29 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 May 2026 | 25 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 January 2026 | 18 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 August 2026 | 12 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 August 2026 | 3 hours 28 minutes | Security |
Delay causes
Why AA 162 runs late
Carrier accounts for 61% of the 8,968 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 61%Carrier
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 12%National Airspace System
- 2%Security
- 0%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 61%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,452 of the 8,968 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 8,968 delay minutes reported on AA 162.
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
7.4% 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 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 365 flights under AA 162 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. 365 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.
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For a booking, read AA 162 as 79.2% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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- HNL to LAX, every carrier and departure
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- Delta Air Lines 422 on the same route94.7%
- United Airlines 1157 on the same route80.4%
- United Airlines 1169 on the same route90.1%
- American Airlines 164 on the same route87.3%
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.