Carrier route record

HALAX→HNL

Hawaiian Airlines · Los Angeles to Honolulu

Flights: 399
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 7%
Carriers: 6

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

Hawaiian on LAX to HNL draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 399 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 1,294 at 84.0% on time.

United Airlines is the most reliable of the five carriers covered here at 84.0% on time across 1,294 flights.

On time

66.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 392 completed flights

Avg delay

99 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.75%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

76.2%

Every carrier on LAX to HNL, 5,540 flights

These figures cover 399 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.

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Carrier by carrier

Hawaiian against every carrier on LAX to HNL

Hawaiian flew 399 of the 5,540 flights on LAX to HNL, about 7% of it. Its 66.6% on time is 10 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number five of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 84.0% to Alaska at 65.9%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 84.0% of the time; Alaska Airlines manages 65.9%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,054 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on LAX to HNL
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
United Airlines	1,294	84.0%	91 min	0.31%	B+
Delta Air Lines	1,095	80.6%	83 min	0.27%	B+
American Airlines	1,182	76.2%	61 min	0.00%	B+
Southwest Airlines	516	75.5%	47 min	0.19%	B+
Hawaiian Airlines (this page)	399	66.6%	99 min	1.75%	C
Alaska Airlines	1,054	65.9%	67 min	1.23%	C

The spread between United and Alaska is 18 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 18 more arrivals inside the on-time window.

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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 14 points, against 18 points between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am72 flights76.4%
8am–11am181 flights62.9%
11am–2pm16 flights—
2pm–5pm18 flights—
5pm–8pm87 flights65.5%
8pm–5am25 flights—

Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 76.4% of the time, against 62.9% for the morning window. That is 14 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 181 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Hawaiian on LAX to HNL through the year

Jul–Sep 202586 flights75.6%
Oct–Dec 2025313 flights64.1%

Scale runs 55% to 80%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 66.6% on time across 399 flights.

Split by quarter, Hawaiian on LAX to HNL logged 86 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 313 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 66.6% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 73.8% on time and Monday the weakest at 58.3%, a spread of 16 points.

Arrival by arrival

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

The 131 late arrivals split 39 under half an hour, 36 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 56 an hour or more.

15+ min early81 flights20.7%
Within 15 min180 flights45.9%
15–29 min late39 flights9.9%
30–59 min late36 flights9.2%
1–2 hours late27 flights6.9%
2+ hours late29 flights7.4%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 392 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

48 of 167 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 29% of them. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for Hawaiian on LAX to HNL

The latest arrival of the period was on 11 December 2025, 18 hours 23 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of Hawaiian on LAX to HNL in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
11 December 2025	18 hours 23 minutes	Carrier
8 December 2025	15 hours 21 minutes	Carrier
24 October 2025	12 hours 2 minutes	Carrier
8 September 2025	8 hours 51 minutes	Carrier
27 October 2025	8 hours 41 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why Hawaiian runs late on this route

Carrier accounts for 70% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
70%
Late-arriving aircraft
30%
National Airspace System
0%
Extreme weather
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 70%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 9,103 of the 13,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 12,977 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 76.4% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 1.75% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

14.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 2,556 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 runs 64.0% on time across 400 flights, within 3 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 399 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 LAX to HNL

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 399 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 66.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 392 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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