Carrier route record
HAOAK→HNL
Hawaiian Airlines · Oakland to Honolulu
- Flights
- 122
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 17%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Hawaiian Airlines.
Hawaiian on OAK to HNL sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 122 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Hawaiian on OAK to HNL from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
75.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 120 completed flights
Avg delay
78 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.64%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.6%
Every carrier on OAK to HNL, 729 flights
These figures cover 122 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 OAK to HNL
Hawaiian flew 122 of the 729 flights on OAK to HNL, about 17% of it. Its 75.8% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Alaska at 85.4% to Hawaiian at 75.8%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Airlinesthin sample | 242 | 85.4% | 48 min | 1.24% | A |
| Southwest Airlines | 365 | 77.0% | 44 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Hawaiian Airlines (this page)thin sample | 122 | 75.8% | 78 min | 1.64% | B |
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Departure window
When Hawaiian runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 122 flights.
- 5am–8am69 flights73.9%
- 8am–11am53 flights78.4%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 78.4% on time for the 8am–11am window against 73.9% for 5am–8am. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 69 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Hawaiian on OAK to HNL through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights73.3%
Scale runs 65% to 90%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 75.8% on time across 122 flights.
Split by quarter, Hawaiian on OAK to HNL 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 75.8% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late Hawaiian on OAK to HNL runs when it is late
Hawaiian on OAK to HNL often beats the schedule: 43 of 120 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 29 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 11 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early43 flights35.8%
- Within 15 min48 flights40.0%
- 15–29 min late10 flights8.3%
- 30–59 min late11 flights9.2%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights5.0%
- 2+ hours late2 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 120 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 23 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 0 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 6 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at HNL.
The worst days
Worst days for Hawaiian on OAK to HNL
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 October 2025, 14 hours 32 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in October 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 1 October 2025 | 14 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 September 2025 | 2 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 October 2025 | 1 hour 48 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 October 2025 | 1 hour 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 November 2025 | 1 hour 33 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why Hawaiian runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 95% of the 2,251 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 95%Carrier
- 5%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 95%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,143 of the 2,251 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,251 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.64% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.7% 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 2,409 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 73.8% on time across 122 flights, within 2 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. 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 OAK to HNL
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 75.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 120 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- OAK to HNL, every carrier
- Hawaiian on HNL to OAK, the return leg
- Alaska Airlines on OAK to HNL85.4%
- Southwest Airlines on OAK to HNL77.0%
- Hawaiian Airlines network-wide record
- Oakland International (OAK) delay statistics
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) delay statistics
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.