Carrier route record

HAOAK→HNL

Hawaiian Airlines · Oakland 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 OAK to HNL lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.6 hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 184 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, 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.

On time

79.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 180 completed flights

Avg delay

155 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.17%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

80.4%

Every carrier on OAK to HNL, 729 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 OAK to HNL

Hawaiian flew 184 of the 729 flights on OAK to HNL, about 25% of it. Its 79.4% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 80.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Alaska at 86.0% to Southwest at 78.1%. 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 OAK to HNL
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Alaska Airlinesthin sample	180	86.0%	38 min	1.11%	A
Hawaiian Airlines (this page)thin sample	184	79.4%	155 min	2.17%	B
Southwest Airlines	365	78.1%	44 min	0.00%	B+

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 184 flights.

5am–8am81 flights74.1%
8am–11am103 flights83.8%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 83.8% of the time, against 74.1% for the early window. That is 10 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 103 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Hawaiian on OAK to HNL through the year

Jul–Sep 202592 flights85.6%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights73.3%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 79.4% on time across 184 flights.

Split by quarter, Hawaiian on OAK 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 79.4% 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 98% of the 5,716 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
98%
Late-arriving aircraft
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 98%, 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 5,608 of the 5,716 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,716 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 2.17% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

7.8% 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 about 2.6 hours, 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 78.3% on time across 184 flights, within about 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. 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 OAK 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 79.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 180 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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