Carrier route record
HAHNL→LAS
Hawaiian Airlines · Honolulu to Las Vegas
- Flights
- 666
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 30%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Hawaiian Airlines.
Hawaiian on HNL to LAS sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 666 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 902 at 92.6% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Hawaiian on HNL to LAS runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 56 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 664 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.15%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
80.9%
Every carrier on HNL to LAS, 2,203 flights
These figures cover 666 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
Hawaiian against every carrier on HNL to LAS
Hawaiian flew 666 of the 2,203 flights on HNL to LAS, about 30% of it. Its 72.0% on time is 9 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 80.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 92.6% to Hawaiian at 72.0%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 92.6% of the time; Alaska Airlines manages 73.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 635 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 902 | 92.6% | 36 min | 0.44% | A+ |
| Alaska Airlines | 635 | 73.7% | 52 min | 0.47% | C+ |
| Hawaiian Airlines (this page) | 666 | 72.0% | 63 min | 0.15% | C+ |
The spread between Southwest and Alaska is 19 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 19 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
Departure window
When Hawaiian runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 26 points, against 19 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am52 flights88.2%
- 8am–11am132 flights78.0%
- 11am–2pm113 flights76.1%
- 2pm–5pm184 flights62.5%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am185 flights70.1%
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 88.2% of the time, against 62.5% for the afternoon window. That is 26 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 185 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Hawaiian on HNL to LAS through the year
- Jul–Sep 2025318 flights79.2%
- Oct–Dec 2025348 flights65.4%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 72.0% on time across 666 flights.
Split by quarter, Hawaiian on HNL to LAS logged 318 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 348 flights in Oct–Dec 2025. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 72.0% annual figure is the one to use.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 81.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 65.6%. 16 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Hawaiian runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 78% of the 12,000 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.
- 78%Carrier
- 21%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Security
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 78%, 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 9,091 of the 12,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 11,672 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.15%, 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 stage length
What a delay here costs
8.9% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 2,762 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.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 69.0% on time across 670 flights, 3 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 3 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 666 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 Hawaiian on HNL to LAS
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 666 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 72.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 664 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- HNL to LAS, every carrier
- Hawaiian on LAS to HNL, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on HNL to LAS92.6%
- Alaska Airlines on HNL to LAS73.7%
- Hawaiian Airlines network-wide record
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) delay statistics
- Harry Reid International (LAS) delay statistics
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.