Flight number record

DL 650

Delta Air Lines · Honolulu to New York

Route: HNL → JFK
Departs: 15:25
Flights: 297
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 650, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 650 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 15 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 297 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 650's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 145 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

92.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 290 completed flights

Avg delay

60 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.68%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

1.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 297 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 17 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 650 flies

DL 650 flies HNL to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:25, used on 45 of 297 flights, with 15:20 (40 flights) and 15:32 (31 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:2545 flights15.2%
Departs 15:2040 flights13.5%
Departs 15:3231 flights10.4%

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 15:25 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 650 runs 20 points better at 92.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 650 next to HNL to JFK

Every carrier on HNL to JFK combined arrived on time 82.0% of the time across 659 flights, so DL 650 is 10 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 11 points.

DL 650 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 650thin sample	297	92.1%	60 min	1.68%	A
All Delta Air Lines on HNL–JFKthin sample	297	92.1%	60 min	1.68%	A
All carriers on HNL–JFK	659	82.0%	52 min	1.21%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 650 quarter by quarter

DL 650 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 86.0%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 74 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 202582 flights96.3%
Oct–Dec 202558 flights86.0%
Jan–Mar 202666 flights88.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights94.4%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 650 did best on Thursday at 97.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 82.0%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 650 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 1,381 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
42%
National Airspace System
34%
Carrier
24%

42% 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 1,381 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 42 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 1,381 delay minutes reported on DL 650.

Cancellations sit at 1.68% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.67%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 4,983 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 297 flights under DL 650 in the data flew HNL to JFK. 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. 297 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 650

For a booking, read DL 650 as 92.1% on time with 1.68% cancelled over 297 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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