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Carrier route record

HAHNL→PHX

Hawaiian Airlines · Honolulu to Phoenix

Flights
122
Period
September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route
9%
Carriers
4
C+GRADE

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

Hawaiian on HNL to PHX draws a C+. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about 40 minutes behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 122 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 365 at 91.2% on time.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so Hawaiian on HNL to PHX runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 112 extra late arrivals.

Key figures

On time

66.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 121 completed flights

Avg delay

39 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

83.3%

Every carrier on HNL to PHX, 1,317 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 PHX

Hawaiian flew 122 of the 1,317 flights on HNL to PHX, about 9% of it. Its 66.1% on time is 17 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 83.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 91.2% to Hawaiian at 66.1%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 91.2% of the time; American Airlines manages 84.6%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 587 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on HNL to PHX
AirlineFlightsOn timeAvg delayCancelledGrade
Southwest Airlines36591.2%28 min0.27%A+
American Airlines58784.6%123 min1.36%B
Alaska Airlinesthin sample24377.0%56 min0.00%B+
Hawaiian Airlines (this page)thin sample12266.1%39 min0.00%C+

Southwest leads American by 7 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.

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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 7 points between the best and worst carrier.

  • 5am–8am—
  • 8am–11am41 flights42.5%
  • 11am–2pm81 flights77.8%
  • 2pm–5pm—
  • 5pm–8pm—
  • 8pm–5am—

Scale runs 35% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 77.8% on time, ahead of 8am–11am at 42.5%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 81 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Hawaiian on HNL to PHX through the year

  • Jul–Sep 202530 flights86.7%
  • Oct–Dec 202592 flights59.3%

Scale runs 50% to 90%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 66.1% on time across 122 flights.

Split by quarter, Hawaiian on HNL to PHX 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 66.1% annual figure is the one to use.

Arrival by arrival

How late Hawaiian on HNL to PHX runs when it is late

Most of the lateness is short. 23 of the 41 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 7 reached an hour or more.

  • 15+ min early16 flights13.2%
  • Within 15 min64 flights52.9%
  • 15–29 min late23 flights19.0%
  • 30–59 min late11 flights9.1%
  • 1–2 hours late6 flights5.0%
  • 2+ hours late1 flights0.8%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 121 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

4 of 30 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. In the other direction, 15 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 PHX.

The worst days

Worst days for Hawaiian on HNL to PHX

The latest arrival of the period was on 10 September 2025, 2 hours 39 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.

The latest arrivals of Hawaiian on HNL to PHX in the period
DateArrived late byLargest filed cause
10 September 20252 hours 39 minutesCarrier
23 December 20251 hour 44 minutesLate-arriving aircraft
28 December 20251 hour 30 minutesCarrier
30 October 20251 hour 24 minutesLate-arriving aircraft
16 November 20251 hour 17 minutesCarrier

Delay causes

Why Hawaiian runs late on this route

Carrier accounts for 74% of the 1,612 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

  • Carrier
    74%
  • Late-arriving aircraft
    17%
  • Extreme weather
    5%
  • Security
    4%

The largest share of delay minutes, 74%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,187 of the 1,612 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,612 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

5.8% 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 about 40 minutes, 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 83.6% on time across 122 flights, 18 points above 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 18 points of difference.

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 PHX

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 66.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 121 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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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.