Carrier route record
HAHNL→LAX
Hawaiian Airlines · Honolulu to Los Angeles
- Flights
- 400
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 7%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Hawaiian Airlines.
Hawaiian on HNL to LAX draws a D. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 400 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 516 at 88.5% on time.
Southwest Airlines is the most reliable of the five carriers covered here at 88.5% on time across 516 flights.
Key figures
On time
64.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 392 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.3%
Every carrier on HNL to LAX, 5,540 flights
These figures cover 400 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Hawaiian against every carrier on HNL to LAX
Hawaiian flew 400 of the 5,540 flights on HNL to LAX, about 7% of it. Its 64.0% on time is 16 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 80.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 88.5% to Hawaiian at 64.0%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 88.5% of the time; Alaska Airlines manages 65.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,053 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 516 | 88.5% | 36 min | 0.58% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines | 1,095 | 87.8% | 67 min | 0.73% | A+ |
| United Airlines | 1,294 | 85.8% | 87 min | 0.54% | A+ |
| American Airlines | 1,182 | 82.2% | 135 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines | 1,053 | 65.5% | 49 min | 0.57% | C+ |
| Hawaiian Airlines (this page) | 400 | 64.0% | 71 min | 2.00% | D |
The spread between Southwest and Alaska is 23 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 23 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
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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 35 points, against 23 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am69 flights80.9%
- 8am–11am36 flights45.7%
- 11am–2pm42 flights61.0%
- 2pm–5pm105 flights61.4%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am148 flights63.3%
Scale runs 35% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 80.9% of the time, against 45.7% for the morning window. That is 35 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 148 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Hawaiian on HNL to LAX through the year
- Jul–Sep 202586 flights87.2%
- Oct–Dec 2025314 flights57.5%
Scale runs 50% to 95%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 64.0% on time across 400 flights.
Split by quarter, Hawaiian on HNL to LAX logged 86 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 314 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 64.0% annual figure is the one to use.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 75.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 55.4%, a spread of 20 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Hawaiian on HNL to LAX runs when it is late
The 141 late arrivals split 57 under half an hour, 35 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 49 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early33 flights8.4%
- Within 15 min218 flights55.6%
- 15–29 min late57 flights14.5%
- 30–59 min late35 flights8.9%
- 1–2 hours late24 flights6.1%
- 2+ hours late25 flights6.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 392 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
21 of 109 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. In the other direction, 53 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 LAX.
The worst days
Worst days for Hawaiian on HNL to LAX
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 December 2025, 10 hours 43 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 December 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 December 2025 | 10 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 December 2025 | 7 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 October 2025 | 4 hours 48 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 December 2025 | 4 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 November 2025 | 4 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why Hawaiian runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 81% of the 10,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 81%Carrier
- 18%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
- 0%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 81%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 8,077 of the 10,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 10,033 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 2.00% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
12.5% 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.
The return leg runs 66.6% on time across 399 flights, within 3 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 400 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 LAX
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 400 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 64.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 392 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- HNL to LAX, every carrier
- Hawaiian on LAX to HNL, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on HNL to LAX88.5%
- Delta Air Lines on HNL to LAX87.8%
- United Airlines on HNL to LAX85.8%
- American Airlines on HNL to LAX82.2%
- Alaska Airlines on HNL to LAX65.5%
- Hawaiian Airlines network-wide record
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) delay statistics
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.