Flight number record
DL 658
Delta Air Lines · Honolulu to Los Angeles
- Route
- HNL → LAX
- Departs
- 21:30
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 658, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 658 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 658's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 152 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
92.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights
Avg delay
69 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.82%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
1.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 658 flies
DL 658 flies HNL to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:30, used on 117 of 365 flights, with 21:35 (62 flights) next.
- Departs 21:30117 flights32.1%
- Departs 21:3562 flights17.0%
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 21:30 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 658 runs 22 points better at 92.5%. 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
DL 658 next to HNL to LAX
Every carrier on HNL to LAX combined arrived on time 80.3% of the time across 5,540 flights, so DL 658 is 12 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 87.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 658 | 365 | 92.5% | 69 min | 0.82% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on HNL–LAX | 1,095 | 87.8% | 67 min | 0.73% | A+ |
| All carriers on HNL–LAX | 5,540 | 80.3% | 76 min | 0.58% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 658 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 658 held fairly steady: 89.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 95.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 94.4% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 95.2% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights89.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights95.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights94.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights95.2%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 658 ranged from 86.3% on Sunday to 96.2% on Tuesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 658 runs when it is late
DL 658 often beats the schedule: 151 of 361 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 27 late arrivals split 12 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 5 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early151 flights41.8%
- Within 15 min183 flights50.7%
- 15–29 min late12 flights3.3%
- 30–59 min late10 flights2.8%
- 1–2 hours late2 flights0.6%
- 2+ hours late3 flights0.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 361 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 25 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 658
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 September 2025, 9 hours 20 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in September 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2025 | 9 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 November 2025 | 4 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 September 2025 | 3 hours 13 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 24 September 2025 | 1 hour 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 October 2025 | 1 hour 7 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 658 runs late
Carrier accounts for 68% of the 1,849 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 68%Carrier
- 12%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 68%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,256 of the 1,849 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,849 delay minutes reported on DL 658.
Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, below the national 1.89% 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.4% 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 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 658 in the data flew HNL to LAX. 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 658
For a booking, DL 658 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 92.5% on time and 0.82% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- HNL to LAX, every carrier and departure
- LAX to HNL, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 427 on the same route76.4%
- American Airlines 162 on the same route79.2%
- Delta Air Lines 422 on the same route94.7%
- United Airlines 1157 on the same route80.4%
- United Airlines 1169 on the same route90.1%
- American Airlines 164 on the same route87.3%
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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.