Carrier route record
AAPHX→HNL
American Airlines · Phoenix to Honolulu
- Flights
- 587
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 45%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on PHX to HNL lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 587 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on PHX 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
77.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 577 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.51%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.4%
Every carrier on PHX to HNL, 1,317 flights
These figures cover 587 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 4 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
American against every carrier on PHX to HNL
American flew 587 of the 1,317 flights on PHX to HNL, about 45% of it. Its 77.6% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Hawaiian at 83.6% to American at 77.6%. Two 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample | 122 | 83.6% | 85 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 365 | 81.0% | 36 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlinesthin sample | 243 | 78.9% | 55 min | 0.41% | B+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 587 | 77.6% | 80 min | 0.51% | B+ |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on PHX to HNL
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Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 11 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am14 flights—
- 8am–11am222 flights77.8%
- 11am–2pm234 flights80.8%
- 2pm–5pm117 flights69.9%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 80.8% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 69.9%. 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 234 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on PHX to HNL through the year
November is the best month on the calendar at 93.3% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. March was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 85.4% on time and Monday the weakest at 70.2%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on PHX to HNL runs when it is late
American on PHX to HNL often beats the schedule: 204 of 577 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 129 late arrivals split 56 under half an hour, 32 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 41 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early204 flights35.4%
- Within 15 min244 flights42.3%
- 15–29 min late56 flights9.7%
- 30–59 min late32 flights5.5%
- 1–2 hours late25 flights4.3%
- 2+ hours late16 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 577 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 98 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 31 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 62 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 American on PHX to HNL
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 January 2026, 21 hours 36 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 January 2026 | 21 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 August 2026 | 18 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 March 2026 | 6 hours 35 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 January 2026 | 5 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 March 2026 | 4 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 54% of the 10,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Carrier
- 28%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 54%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,556 of the 10,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 10,342 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.51%, below the national 1.89% 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
7.1% 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 2,917 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 84.6% on time across 587 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 587 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 American on PHX to HNL
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 587 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 77.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 577 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PHX to HNL, every carrier
- American on HNL to PHX, the return leg
- Hawaiian Airlines on PHX to HNL83.6%
- Southwest Airlines on PHX to HNL81.0%
- Alaska Airlines on PHX to HNL78.9%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.