Carrier route record

HAHNL→PDX

Hawaiian Airlines · Honolulu to Portland

Flights: 468
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 51%
Carriers: 2

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Hawaiian Airlines.

Hawaiian on HNL to PDX sits in the middle of the pack with a B+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 468 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.

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

On time

75.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 464 completed flights

Avg delay

75 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.85%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

76.6%

Every carrier on HNL to PDX, 920 flights

These figures cover 468 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 PDX

Hawaiian flew 468 of the 920 flights on HNL to PDX, most of the route. Its 75.4% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 76.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Alaska at 77.8% to Hawaiian at 75.4%.

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 PDX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Alaska Airlines	452	77.8%	66 min	1.55%	B
Hawaiian Airlines (this page)	468	75.4%	75 min	0.85%	B+

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 468 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am124 flights79.8%
11am–2pm110 flights72.2%
2pm–5pm78 flights76.9%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am156 flights73.4%

Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 72.2% on time against 79.8% for 8am–11am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 156 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Hawaiian on HNL to PDX through the year

Jul–Sep 2025244 flights78.3%
Oct–Dec 2025224 flights72.3%

Scale runs 65% 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 75.4% on time across 468 flights.

Split by quarter, Hawaiian on HNL to PDX logged 244 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 224 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 75.4% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 82.5% on time and Thursday the weakest at 65.3%. 17 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 89% of the 8,588 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
89%
Late-arriving aircraft
10%
Security
0%
Extreme weather
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 89%, 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 7,684 of the 8,588 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 8,588 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.85%, 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

7.8% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 2,603 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 58.7% on time across 464 flights, 17 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 17 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 468 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 PDX

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 468 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 75.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 464 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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