Flight number record
AA 6
American Airlines · Honolulu to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- HNL → DFW
- Departs
- 18:45
- Flights
- 358
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 6, check with American Airlines.
AA 6 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.8 hours. That rests on 358 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 6's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 113 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights
Avg delay
170 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.68%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 358 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 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 358 flights, with 17:45 (51 flights) and 17:42 (44 flights) next.
- Departs 18:45109 flights30.4%
- Departs 17:4551 flights14.2%
- Departs 17:4244 flights12.3%
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 18:45 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and AA 6 runs 21 points better at 88.6%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
AA 6 next to HNL to DFW
Every carrier on HNL to DFW combined arrived on time 80.8% of the time across 702 flights, so AA 6 is 8 points ahead of it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 6thin sample | 358 | 88.6% | 170 min | 1.68% | A |
| All American Airlines on HNL–DFW | 702 | 80.8% | 121 min | 1.71% | B |
| All carriers on HNL–DFW | 702 | 80.8% | 121 min | 1.71% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | 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 Jan–Mar 2026 at 82.8%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 90 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 202528 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights87.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.4%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 6 did best on Thursday at 96.2% on time and worst on Monday at 80.4%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 6 runs when it is late
AA 6 often beats the schedule: 163 of 350 completed flights, 47%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 40 late arrivals split 17 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early163 flights46.6%
- Within 15 min147 flights42.0%
- 15–29 min late17 flights4.9%
- 30–59 min late7 flights2.0%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.0%
- 2+ hours late9 flights2.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 350 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 36 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 6
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 December 2025, 19 hours 51 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 December 2025 | 19 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 August 2026 | 18 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 September 2025 | 15 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 November 2025 | 14 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 September 2025 | 8 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 6 runs late
Carrier accounts for 72% of the 6,796 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 72%Carrier
- 15%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 72%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,874 of the 6,796 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,796 delay minutes reported on AA 6.
Cancellations sit at 1.68% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.56%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.6% 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 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.
Every one of the 358 flights under AA 6 in the data flew HNL to DFW. 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. 358 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
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For a booking, read AA 6 as 88.6% on time with 1.68% cancelled over 358 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) delay statistics
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
- Every American Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
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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.