Carrier route record
HAHNL→SLC
Hawaiian Airlines · Honolulu to Salt Lake City
- Flights
- 122
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 14%
- 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 SLC lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 122 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Hawaiian's HNL to SLC record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 53 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 121 completed flights
Avg delay
73 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
82.3%
Every carrier on HNL to SLC, 856 flights
These figures cover 122 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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
Hawaiian against every carrier on HNL to SLC
Hawaiian flew 122 of the 856 flights on HNL to SLC, about 14% of it. Its 82.6% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 82.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 83.8% to Alaska at 79.2%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 492 | 83.8% | 72 min | 3.05% | B− |
| Hawaiian Airlines (this page)thin sample | 122 | 82.6% | 73 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlinesthin sample | 242 | 79.2% | 52 min | 0.00% | B+ |
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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 12 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm61 flights88.5%
- 8pm–5am61 flights76.7%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 88.5% on time. The full set of windows spans 12 points.
Across the year
Hawaiian on HNL to SLC through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights78.0%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 82.6% on time across 122 flights.
Split by quarter, Hawaiian on HNL to SLC 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 82.6% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late Hawaiian on HNL to SLC runs when it is late
Hawaiian on HNL to SLC often beats the schedule: 32 of 121 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 21 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 4 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 7 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early32 flights26.4%
- Within 15 min68 flights56.2%
- 15–29 min late10 flights8.3%
- 30–59 min late4 flights3.3%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights2.5%
- 2+ hours late4 flights3.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 121 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 18 of 121 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for Hawaiian on HNL to SLC
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 December 2025, 4 hours 51 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in December 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 December 2025 | 4 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 October 2025 | 4 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 December 2025 | 3 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 December 2025 | 2 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 October 2025 | 1 hour 32 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why Hawaiian runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 60% of the 1,529 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 60%Carrier
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 60%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 911 of the 1,529 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,529 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 2,994 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 78.7% on time across 122 flights, 4 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 4 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 SLC
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 82.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 121 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- HNL to SLC, every carrier
- Hawaiian on SLC to HNL, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on HNL to SLC83.8%
- Alaska Airlines on HNL to SLC79.2%
- Hawaiian Airlines network-wide record
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) delay statistics
- Salt Lake City International (SLC) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- 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.