Flight number record
AA 162
American Airlines · Honolulu to Los Angeles
- Route
- HNL → LAX
- Departs
- 15:15
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 162, check with American Airlines.
AA 162 lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 162's record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 40 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 365 completed flights
Avg delay
115 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
5.8%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
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 (41 flights) and 14:13 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 15:1544 flights12.1%
- Departs 12:4141 flights11.2%
- Departs 14:1337 flights10.1%
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 15:15 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and AA 162 runs 9 points better at 81.6%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
AA 162 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 162 is about level with 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 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 162 | 365 | 81.6% | 115 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| 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 162 quarter by quarter
AA 162 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 91.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 76.1%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 91 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 flights91.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights76.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights81.3%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 162 did best on Wednesday at 92.3% on time and worst on Tuesday at 71.7%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 162 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 64% of the 7,688 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.
- 64%Carrier
- 23%Late-arriving aircraft
- 12%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 64%, 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 4,937 of the 7,688 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,688 delay minutes reported on AA 162.
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
5.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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.
What to do with this
Booking AA 162
For a booking, read AA 162 as 81.6% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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%
- Delta Air Lines 658 on the same route90.8%
- United Airlines 1169 on the same route91.5%
- American Airlines 164 on the same route88.7%
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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.