Carrier route record
HALAS→HNL
Hawaiian Airlines · Las Vegas to Honolulu
- Flights
- 670
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 30%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Hawaiian Airlines.
Hawaiian on LAS to HNL sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 670 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 902 at 85.6% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Hawaiian on LAS to HNL runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 86 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 668 completed flights
Avg delay
85 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.15%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
76.9%
Every carrier on LAS to HNL, 2,208 flights
These figures cover 670 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 LAS to HNL
Hawaiian flew 670 of the 2,208 flights on LAS to HNL, about 30% of it. Its 69.0% on time is 8 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 85.6% to Hawaiian at 69.0%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 85.6% of the time; Alaska Airlines manages 73.1%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 636 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 902 | 85.6% | 37 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Alaska Airlines | 636 | 73.1% | 64 min | 1.10% | C |
| Hawaiian Airlines (this page) | 670 | 69.0% | 85 min | 0.15% | C+ |
The spread between Southwest and Alaska is 13 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 13 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
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 16 points, against 13 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am113 flights78.8%
- 8am–11am185 flights62.5%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm185 flights64.1%
- 8pm–5am187 flights74.3%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 78.8% of the time, against 62.5% for the morning window. That is 16 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 187 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Hawaiian on LAS to HNL through the year
- Jul–Sep 2025318 flights69.7%
- Oct–Dec 2025352 flights68.4%
Scale runs 60% to 75%. 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 69.0% on time across 670 flights.
Split by quarter, Hawaiian on LAS to HNL logged 318 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 352 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 69.0% annual figure is the one to use.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 78.2% on time and Monday the weakest at 62.1%. 16 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Hawaiian runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 79% of the 18,000 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.
- 79%Carrier
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 79%, 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 14,000 of the 18,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 17,607 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.15%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 2,762 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 72.0% on time across 666 flights, 3 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 3 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 670 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 LAS to HNL
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 670 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 69.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 668 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LAS to HNL, every carrier
- Hawaiian on HNL to LAS, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on LAS to HNL85.6%
- Alaska Airlines on LAS to HNL73.1%
- Hawaiian Airlines network-wide record
- Harry Reid International (LAS) delay statistics
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) delay statistics
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.