Carrier route record

HALGB→HNL

Hawaiian Airlines · Long Beach to Honolulu

Flights: 184
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 25%
Carriers: 3

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

Hawaiian on LGB to HNL earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 184 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Hawaiian's LGB to HNL record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 98 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

87.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 183 completed flights

Avg delay

52 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.54%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

89.0%

Every carrier on LGB to HNL, 730 flights

These figures cover 184 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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.

Carrier by carrier

Hawaiian against every carrier on LGB to HNL

Hawaiian flew 184 of the 730 flights on LGB to HNL, about 25% of it. Its 87.4% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 89.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 91.0% to Alaska at 86.7%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on LGB to HNL
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	365	91.0%	57 min	0.00%	A+
Hawaiian Airlines (this page)thin sample	184	87.4%	52 min	0.54%	A+
Alaska Airlinesthin sample	181	86.7%	44 min	0.00%	A+

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 27 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am149 flights92.6%
8am–11am35 flights65.7%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 92.6% of the time, against 65.7% for the morning window. That is 27 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 149 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Hawaiian on LGB to HNL through the year

Jul–Sep 202592 flights92.4%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights82.4%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. 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 87.4% on time across 184 flights.

Split by quarter, Hawaiian on LGB to HNL logged 92 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 87.4% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why Hawaiian runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 95% of the 1,187 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
95%
Extreme weather
5%

The largest share of delay minutes, 95%, 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 1,130 of the 1,187 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,187 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.54%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.2% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

At 2,569 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 76.5% on time across 184 flights, 11 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 11 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 184 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 LGB to HNL

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 184 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 87.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 183 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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