Flight number record
DL 480
Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Honolulu
- Route
- LAX → HNL
- Departs
- 08:30
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 480, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 480 lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 480's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 49 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 365 completed flights
Avg delay
119 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 480 flies
DL 480 flies LAX to HNL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:30, used on 126 of 365 flights, with 07:50 (62 flights) and 08:15 (53 flights) next.
- Departs 08:30126 flights34.5%
- Departs 07:5062 flights17.0%
- Departs 08:1553 flights14.5%
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 08:30 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 480 runs level with that at 82.2%. 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
DL 480 next to LAX to HNL
Every carrier on LAX to HNL combined arrived on time 76.2% of the time across 5,540 flights, so DL 480 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 80.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 480 | 365 | 82.2% | 119 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on LAX–HNL | 1,095 | 80.6% | 83 min | 0.27% | B+ |
| All carriers on LAX–HNL | 5,540 | 76.2% | 73 min | 0.51% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 480 quarter by quarter
DL 480 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 89.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 72.6%, a swing of 17 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 flights76.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights89.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights72.6%
Scale runs 65% to 95%.
By weekday, DL 480 did best on Friday at 90.4% on time and worst on Monday at 73.6%. 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 DL 480 runs when it is late
DL 480 often beats the schedule: 141 of 365 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When DL 480 is late it tends to be very late: 35 of its 65 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 25 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early141 flights38.6%
- Within 15 min159 flights43.6%
- 15–29 min late16 flights4.4%
- 30–59 min late14 flights3.8%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights2.7%
- 2+ hours late25 flights6.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 365 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 57 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. In the other direction, 19 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at HNL.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 480
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 June 2026, 11 hours 11 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 27 June 2026 | 11 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 August 2026 | 6 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 July 2026 | 5 hours 53 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 4 August 2026 | 5 hours 34 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 July 2026 | 5 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 480 runs late
Carrier accounts for 83% of the 7,727 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 83%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
- 4%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 83%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 6,418 of the 7,727 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,727 delay minutes reported on DL 480.
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
9.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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 480 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
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For a booking, read DL 480 as 82.2% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to HNL, every carrier and departure
- HNL to LAX, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 443 on the same route82.1%
- Delta Air Lines 465 on the same route77.4%
- American Airlines 31 on the same route81.9%
- American Airlines 143 on the same route79.9%
- United Airlines 1170 on the same route79.3%
- United Airlines 1158 on the same route87.8%
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.