Carrier route record

HAHNL→PHX

Hawaiian Airlines · Honolulu to Phoenix

Flights: 184
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 14%
Carriers: 4

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

Hawaiian on HNL to PHX sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land roughly 40 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 184 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 365 at 93.9% on time.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Hawaiian on HNL to PHX runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 71 extra late arrivals.

On time

70.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 183 completed flights

Avg delay

41 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

85.0%

Every carrier on HNL to PHX, 1,317 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 PHX

Hawaiian flew 184 of the 1,317 flights on HNL to PHX, about 14% of it. Its 70.5% on time is 15 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 85.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 93.9% to Hawaiian at 70.5%. 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 93.9% of the time; American Airlines manages 85.5%. 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
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	365	93.9%	29 min	1.64%	A
American Airlines	587	85.5%	125 min	1.36%	A
Alaska Airlinesthin sample	181	80.7%	64 min	0.00%	B+
Hawaiian Airlines (this page)thin sample	184	70.5%	41 min	0.00%	C+

Southwest leads American by 8 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.

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 36 points, against 8 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am41 flights42.5%
11am–2pm143 flights78.3%
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 78.3% 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 143 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Hawaiian on HNL to PHX through the year

Jul–Sep 202592 flights81.5%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights59.3%

Scale runs 50% 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 70.5% on time across 184 flights.

Split by quarter, Hawaiian on HNL to PHX 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 70.5% 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 77% of the 2,219 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
77%
Late-arriving aircraft
16%
Extreme weather
4%
Security
3%

The largest share of delay minutes, 77%, 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 1,705 of the 2,219 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,219 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 4.4% 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 2,917 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 85.9% on time across 184 flights, 15 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 15 points of difference.

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 PHX

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 70.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 183 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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