Carrier route record

HAPDX→HNL

Hawaiian Airlines · Portland to Honolulu

Flights: 464
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 51%
Carriers: 2

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

Hawaiian on PDX to HNL draws a D. Roughly one flight in two 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 464 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Hawaiian on PDX to HNL runs 19 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 189 extra late arrivals.

On time

58.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 458 completed flights

Avg delay

71 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.08%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

62.1%

Every carrier on PDX to HNL, 917 flights

These figures cover 464 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.

Carrier by carrier

Hawaiian against every carrier on PDX to HNL

Hawaiian flew 464 of the 917 flights on PDX to HNL, most of the route. Its 58.7% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 62.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Alaska at 65.5% to Hawaiian at 58.7%.

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 PDX to HNL
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Alaska Airlines	453	65.5%	47 min	1.55%	C
Hawaiian Airlines (this page)	464	58.7%	71 min	1.08%	D

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 31 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–8am145 flights62.9%
8am–11am155 flights45.7%
11am–2pm43 flights76.7%
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm121 flights63.6%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 35% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 76.7% on time, ahead of 8am–11am at 45.7%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 155 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Hawaiian on PDX to HNL through the year

Jul–Sep 2025244 flights61.9%
Oct–Dec 2025220 flights55.1%

Scale runs 45% to 65%. 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 58.7% on time across 464 flights.

Split by quarter, Hawaiian on PDX to HNL logged 244 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 220 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 58.7% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Sunday is the strongest day at 75.0% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 41.9%. 33 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 74% of the 13,000 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
74%
Late-arriving aircraft
22%
National Airspace System
2%
Security
2%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 74%, 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 9,822 of the 13,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 13,327 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 1.08% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.22%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

7.6% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 2,603 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 75.4% on time across 468 flights, 17 points above 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 17 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 464 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 PDX to HNL

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 464 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 58.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 458 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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