Carrier route record
AAHNL→PHX
American Airlines · Honolulu to Phoenix
- Flights
- 587
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 45%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on HNL to PHX earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 587 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, American's HNL to PHX record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 73 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 579 completed flights
Avg delay
123 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.36%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
83.3%
Every carrier on HNL to PHX, 1,317 flights
These figures cover 587 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on HNL to PHX
American flew 587 of the 1,317 flights on HNL to PHX, about 45% of it. Its 84.6% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 83.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 91.2% to Hawaiian at 66.1%. Two 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 | 91.2% | 28 min | 0.27% | A+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 587 | 84.6% | 123 min | 1.36% | B |
| Alaska Airlinesthin sample | 243 | 77.0% | 56 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample | 122 | 66.1% | 39 min | 0.00% | C+ |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on HNL to PHX
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Departure window
When American 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 587 flights.
The overnight block holds up unusually well at 84.6% on time across 587 flights. Red-eyes fly into empty airspace and empty gates, and they are the first rotation of the aircraft's day rather than the last. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 587 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on HNL to PHX through the year
September is the best month on the calendar at 93.8% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. March was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 91.2% on time and Saturday the weakest at 77.4%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on HNL to PHX runs when it is late
American on HNL to PHX often beats the schedule: 199 of 579 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 89 late arrivals split 39 under half an hour, 21 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 29 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early199 flights34.4%
- Within 15 min291 flights50.3%
- 15–29 min late39 flights6.7%
- 30–59 min late21 flights3.6%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights2.8%
- 2+ hours late13 flights2.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 579 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 97 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 30 still arrived on time. 22 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on HNL to PHX
The latest arrival of the period was on 17 October 2025, 20 hours 41 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 17 October 2025 | 20 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 July 2026 | 18 hours 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 April 2026 | 17 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 July 2026 | 16 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 May 2026 | 16 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 60% of the 11,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 60%Carrier
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 7%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 60%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 6,510 of the 11,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 10,918 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.36% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
5.0% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 2,917 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 77.6% on time across 587 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 587 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 American on HNL to PHX
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 587 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 84.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 579 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- HNL to PHX, every carrier
- American on PHX to HNL, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on HNL to PHX91.2%
- Alaska Airlines on HNL to PHX77.0%
- Hawaiian Airlines on HNL to PHX66.1%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) delay statistics
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.