Flight number record
AA 164
American Airlines · Honolulu to Los Angeles
- Route
- HNL → LAX
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 164, check with American Airlines.
AA 164 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.8 hours. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 164's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 111 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 363 completed flights
Avg delay
166 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 364 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 164 flies
AA 164 flies HNL to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 157 of 364 flights, with 14:00 (104 flights) and 08:00 (43 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:00157 flights43.1%
- Departs 14:00104 flights28.6%
- Departs 08:0043 flights11.8%
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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 164 runs level with that at 88.7%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
AA 164 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 164 is 8 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 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 164thin sample | 364 | 88.7% | 166 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 164 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 164 held fairly steady: 90.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 92.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 85.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 86.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights90.2%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights92.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights85.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights86.8%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 164 ranged from 82.7% on Sunday to 94.2% on Thursday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why AA 164 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 84% of the 6,822 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.
- 84%Carrier
- 11%Late-arriving aircraft
- 5%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 84%, 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 5,746 of the 6,822 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,822 delay minutes reported on AA 164.
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 364 flights under AA 164 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. 364 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 164
For a booking, AA 164 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 88.7% 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.