Flight number record
AA 164
American Airlines · Honolulu to Los Angeles
- Route
- HNL → LAX
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.6 hours. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 164's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 100 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 363 completed flights
Avg delay
158 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 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 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 (105 flights) and 08:00 (43 flights) next.
- Departs 07:00157 flights43.1%
- Departs 14:00105 flights28.8%
- Departs 08:0043 flights11.8%
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 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 2 points worse at 87.3%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
AA 164 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 164 is 7 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 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 164thin sample | 364 | 87.3% | 158 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 164 quarter by quarter
AA 164 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 79.0%, a swing of 18 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 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights92.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights85.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights86.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights79.0%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, AA 164 did best on Wednesday at 94.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 76.9%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 164 runs when it is late
AA 164 often beats the schedule: 144 of 363 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 23 of the 46 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 10 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early144 flights39.7%
- Within 15 min173 flights47.7%
- 15–29 min late23 flights6.3%
- 30–59 min late13 flights3.6%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.4%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 363 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 42 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 29% of them. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 164
The latest arrival of the period was on 24 February 2026, 48 hours 39 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 24 February 2026 | 48 hours 39 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 March 2026 | 26 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 March 2026 | 10 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 August 2026 | 7 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 October 2025 | 2 hours 35 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 164 runs late
Carrier accounts for 79% of the 7,270 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 79%Carrier
- 16%Late-arriving aircraft
- 5%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 79%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,763 of the 7,270 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,270 delay minutes reported on AA 164.
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 2.8% 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 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: 87.3% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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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.