Carrier route record

HAHNL→OAK

Hawaiian Airlines · Honolulu to Oakland

Flights: 184
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 25%
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 OAK lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 45 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 184 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Hawaiian on HNL to OAK from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

78.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 184 completed flights

Avg delay

46 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

82.1%

Every carrier on HNL to OAK, 729 flights

These figures cover 184 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.

Carrier by carrier

Hawaiian against every carrier on HNL to OAK

Hawaiian flew 184 of the 729 flights on HNL to OAK, about 25% of it. Its 78.3% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 82.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 88.2% to Alaska at 73.7%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.

On-time performance by carrier on HNL to OAK
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	365	88.2%	55 min	0.00%	A+
Hawaiian Airlines (this page)thin sample	184	78.3%	46 min	0.00%	B+
Alaska Airlinesthin sample	180	73.7%	41 min	0.00%	C+

Departure window

When Hawaiian runs best on this route

Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 184 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Hawaiian's HNL to OAK record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 78.3% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

Hawaiian on HNL to OAK through the year

Jul–Sep 202592 flights84.8%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights71.7%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 78.3% on time across 184 flights.

Split by quarter, Hawaiian on HNL to OAK logged 92 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 92 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 78.3% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why Hawaiian runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 72% of the 1,818 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.

Carrier
72%
Late-arriving aircraft
27%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 72%, 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 1,300 of the 1,818 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,818 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.9% 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 2,409 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 79.4% on time across 184 flights, within about a point 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. 184 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 OAK

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 184 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 78.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 184 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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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