Flight number record

DL 443

Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Honolulu

Route: LAX → HNL
Departs: 17:50
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 443, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 443 lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 443's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 48 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 363 completed flights

Avg delay

76 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.55%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 DL 443 flies

DL 443 flies LAX to HNL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:50, used on 95 of 365 flights, with 17:25 (62 flights) and 17:55 (52 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 17:5095 flights26.0%
Departs 17:2562 flights17.0%
Departs 17:5552 flights14.2%

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 17:50 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 443 runs 14 points better at 82.4%. 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

DL 443 next to LAX to HNL

Every carrier on LAX to HNL combined arrived on time 76.9% of the time across 5,459 flights, so DL 443 is 6 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,095 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.7% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 443 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 443	365	82.4%	76 min	0.55%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on LAX–HNL	1,095	80.7%	75 min	0.37%	B+
All carriers on LAX–HNL	5,459	76.9%	73 min	0.49%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 443 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 443 held fairly steady: 81.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 85.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 83.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 78.9% 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 flights81.3%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights85.9%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights83.3%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights78.9%

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 443 did best on Tuesday at 88.5% on time and worst on Saturday at 76.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 443 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 69% of the 4,857 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
69%
Late-arriving aircraft
19%
National Airspace System
12%

The largest share of delay minutes, 69%, 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 3,331 of the 4,857 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,857 delay minutes reported on DL 443.

Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

7.7% 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 a little over an hour, 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 DL 443 in the data flew LAX to HNL. 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 DL 443

For a booking, read DL 443 as 82.4% on time with 0.55% cancelled over 365 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 Delta Air Lines’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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