Flight number record
DL 650
Delta Air Lines · Honolulu to New York
- Route
- HNL → JFK
- Departs
- 15:50
- Flights
- 297
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 297 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 650's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 119 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 286 completed flights
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.03%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 297 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 DL 650 flies
DL 650 flies HNL to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:50, used on 86 of 297 flights, with 15:32 (31 flights) next.
- Departs 15:5086 flights29.0%
- Departs 15:3231 flights10.4%
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 15:50 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 650 runs 17 points better at 89.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 650 next to HNL to JFK
Every carrier on HNL to JFK combined arrived on time 80.2% of the time across 659 flights, so DL 650 is 9 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 650thin sample | 297 | 89.2% | 60 min | 3.03% | A− |
| All Delta Air Lines on HNL–JFKthin sample | 297 | 89.2% | 60 min | 3.03% | A− |
| All carriers on HNL–JFK | 659 | 80.2% | 52 min | 1.82% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 650 quarter by quarter
DL 650 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 94.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 82.5%, a swing of 12 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 202520 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202558 flights86.0%
- Jan–Mar 202666 flights88.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights94.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights82.5%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 650 did best on Thursday at 95.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 81.6%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 650 runs when it is late
DL 650 often beats the schedule: 147 of 286 completed flights, 51%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 31 late arrivals split 14 under half an hour, 9 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early147 flights51.4%
- Within 15 min108 flights37.8%
- 15–29 min late14 flights4.9%
- 30–59 min late9 flights3.1%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.4%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 286 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 42 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 20 still arrived on time. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 650
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 December 2025, 4 hours 44 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across December, February, September, August and October, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 December 2025 | 4 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 February 2026 | 4 hours 6 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 21 September 2025 | 2 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 August 2026 | 2 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 October 2025 | 1 hour 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 650 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 1,866 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 27%National Airspace System
44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 1,866 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 44 to one. The split is drawn from 1,866 delay minutes reported on DL 650.
Cancellations run at 3.03%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.8% 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 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, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 650: 3.03% of its 297 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) delay statistics
- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.