Flight number record

AA 6

American Airlines · Honolulu to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: HNL → DFW
Departs: 18:45
Flights: 332
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 6, check with American Airlines.

AA 6 earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 3.1 hours. That rests on 332 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 6's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 85 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 323 completed flights

Avg delay

187 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.81%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 332 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 6 flies

AA 6 flies HNL to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:45, used on 109 of 332 flights, with 17:42 (44 flights) and 17:37 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 18:45109 flights32.8%
Departs 17:4244 flights13.3%
Departs 17:3741 flights12.3%

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 18:45 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and AA 6 runs 18 points better at 86.1%. 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 6 next to HNL to DFW

Every carrier on HNL to DFW combined arrived on time 78.0% of the time across 640 flights, so AA 6 is 8 points ahead of it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 12 points.

AA 6 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 6thin sample	332	86.1%	187 min	1.81%	A
All American Airlines on HNL–DFW	640	78.0%	112 min	1.88%	B
All carriers on HNL–DFW	640	78.0%	112 min	1.88%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 6 quarter by quarter

AA 6 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 95.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 75.0%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 83 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 202564 flights75.0%
Oct–Dec 202587 flights87.2%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.8%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%

Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 6 did best on Wednesday at 95.3% on time and worst on Sunday at 78.7%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 6 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 45% of the 8,410 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.

Carrier
45%
Late-arriving aircraft
44%
National Airspace System
7%
Extreme weather
3%

44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 8,410 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 8,410 delay minutes reported on AA 6.

Cancellations sit at 1.81% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.90%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.2% 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 about 3.1 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 3,784 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.

The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including ICT to DFW (1) and DFW to ICT (1), but none flew often enough under AA 6 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to HNL to DFW only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 332 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 6

For a booking, read AA 6 as 86.1% on time with 1.81% cancelled over 332 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

Where to go next

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.

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