Carrier route record
HAHNL→OAK
Hawaiian Airlines · Honolulu to Oakland
- Flights
- 122
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 17%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Hawaiian Airlines.
Hawaiian on HNL to OAK sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land roughly 50 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 122 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, 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.
Key figures
On time
73.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 122 completed flights
Avg delay
49 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
81.2%
Every carrier on HNL to OAK, 729 flights
These figures cover 122 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
Hawaiian against every carrier on HNL to OAK
Hawaiian flew 122 of the 729 flights on HNL to OAK, about 17% of it. Its 73.8% on time is 7 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 81.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 88.2% to Hawaiian at 73.8%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 365 | 88.2% | 53 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Alaska Airlinesthin sample | 242 | 74.2% | 48 min | 0.41% | C+ |
| Hawaiian Airlines (this page)thin sample | 122 | 73.8% | 49 min | 0.00% | C+ |
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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 122 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 73.8% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
Hawaiian on HNL to OAK through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights71.7%
Scale runs 65% to 85%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 73.8% on time across 122 flights.
Split by quarter, Hawaiian on HNL to OAK logged 30 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 73.8% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late Hawaiian on HNL to OAK runs when it is late
The 32 late arrivals split 12 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early15 flights12.3%
- Within 15 min75 flights61.5%
- 15–29 min late12 flights9.8%
- 30–59 min late12 flights9.8%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights4.1%
- 2+ hours late3 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 122 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 31 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. In the other direction, 8 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 OAK.
The worst days
Worst days for Hawaiian on HNL to OAK
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 September 2025, 2 hours 11 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2025 | 2 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 October 2025 | 2 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 October 2025 | 2 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 November 2025 | 1 hour 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 December 2025 | 1 hour 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Hawaiian runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 69% of the 1,559 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 69%Carrier
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 69%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,073 of the 1,559 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,559 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% 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
6.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last roughly 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 75.8% on time across 122 flights, within 2 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. 122 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. 122 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 73.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 122 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- HNL to OAK, every carrier
- Hawaiian on OAK to HNL, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on HNL to OAK88.2%
- Alaska Airlines on HNL to OAK74.2%
- Hawaiian Airlines network-wide record
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) delay statistics
- Oakland International (OAK) delay statistics
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.