Carrier route record
HAHNL→SJC
Hawaiian Airlines · Honolulu to San Jose
- Flights
- 120
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 15%
- 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 SJC 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 about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 120 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so Hawaiian on HNL to SJC runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 42 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 119 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
81.4%
Every carrier on HNL to SJC, 808 flights
These figures cover 120 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 SJC
Hawaiian flew 120 of the 808 flights on HNL to SJC, about 15% of it. Its 73.1% on time is 8 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 81.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 88.5% to Alaska at 72.4%. 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 | 445 | 88.5% | 42 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Hawaiian Airlines (this page)thin sample | 120 | 73.1% | 55 min | 0.00% | C+ |
| Alaska Airlinesthin sample | 243 | 72.4% | 56 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 120 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Hawaiian's HNL to SJC record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 73.1% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
Hawaiian on HNL to SJC through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights67.4%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 73.1% on time across 120 flights.
Split by quarter, Hawaiian on HNL to SJC logged 30 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 90 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 73.1% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late Hawaiian on HNL to SJC runs when it is late
The 32 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 9 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early14 flights11.8%
- Within 15 min73 flights61.3%
- 15–29 min late15 flights12.6%
- 30–59 min late9 flights7.6%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights2.5%
- 2+ hours late5 flights4.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 119 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 32 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. In the other direction, 6 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 SJC.
The worst days
Worst days for Hawaiian on HNL to SJC
The latest arrival of the period was on 17 October 2025, 3 hours 32 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in October 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 17 October 2025 | 3 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 November 2025 | 2 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 September 2025 | 2 hours 39 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 October 2025 | 2 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 October 2025 | 2 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Hawaiian runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 58% of the 1,759 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 58%Carrier
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
41% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 1,759 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 35 to one. The split is drawn from 1,759 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 58%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,014 of the 1,759 delay minutes reported here.
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
6.7% 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 an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 2,417 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 90.0% on time across 120 flights, 17 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 17 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 120 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 SJC
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 120 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 73.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 119 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- HNL to SJC, every carrier
- Hawaiian on SJC to HNL, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on HNL to SJC88.5%
- Alaska Airlines on HNL to SJC72.4%
- Hawaiian Airlines network-wide record
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) delay statistics
- Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International (SJC) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
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.