Carrier route record

HALAX→HNL

Hawaiian Airlines · Los Angeles to Honolulu

Flights: 619
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 11%
Carriers: 6

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

Hawaiian on LAX to HNL draws a D. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 619 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 1,268 at 84.5% on time.

United Airlines is the most reliable of the five carriers covered here at 84.5% on time across 1,268 flights.

On time

63.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 611 completed flights

Avg delay

82 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.29%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

76.9%

Every carrier on LAX to HNL, 5,459 flights

These figures cover 619 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

Hawaiian against every carrier on LAX to HNL

Hawaiian flew 619 of the 5,459 flights on LAX to HNL, about 11% of it. Its 63.2% on time is 14 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 84.5% to Hawaiian at 63.2%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 84.5% of the time; Alaska Airlines manages 67.1%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 777 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	1,268	84.5%	97 min	0.39%	B+
Southwest Airlines	517	81.6%	51 min	0.19%	B+
Delta Air Lines	1,095	80.7%	75 min	0.37%	B+
American Airlines	1,183	76.7%	57 min	0.17%	B+
Alaska Airlines	777	67.1%	72 min	0.90%	C+
Hawaiian Airlines (this page)	619	63.2%	82 min	1.29%	D

The spread between United and Alaska is 17 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 17 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 28 points, against 17 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am85 flights77.6%
8am–11am293 flights59.2%
11am–2pm16 flights—
2pm–5pm18 flights—
5pm–8pm147 flights66.7%
8pm–5am60 flights50.0%

Scale runs 40% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 50.0% on time, against 77.6% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 293 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Hawaiian on LAX to HNL through the year

Jul–Sep 2025306 flights62.3%
Oct–Dec 2025313 flights64.1%

Scale runs 55% to 70%. 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 63.2% on time across 619 flights.

Split by quarter, Hawaiian on LAX to HNL logged 306 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 63.2% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 67.0% on time and Thursday the weakest at 56.3%. 11 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 70% 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.

Carrier
70%
Late-arriving aircraft
29%
National Airspace System
1%
Security
0%
Extreme weather
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 70%, 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 13,000 of the 18,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 18,420 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 77.6% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 1.29% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 12.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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 63.0% on time across 619 flights, within half a point 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. 619 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. 619 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 63.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 611 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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