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Carrier route record

HAPHX→HNL

Hawaiian Airlines · Phoenix to Honolulu

Flights
122
Period
September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route
9%
Carriers
4
B+GRADE

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

Hawaiian on PHX to HNL lands a B+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 122 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 365 at 81.0% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, Hawaiian's PHX to HNL record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 63 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

Key figures

On time

83.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 122 completed flights

Avg delay

85 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

79.4%

Every carrier on PHX to HNL, 1,317 flights

These figures cover 122 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 PHX to HNL

Hawaiian flew 122 of the 1,317 flights on PHX to HNL, about 9% of it. Its 83.6% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 79.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Hawaiian at 83.6% to American at 77.6%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 3 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.

On-time performance by carrier on PHX to HNL
AirlineFlightsOn timeAvg delayCancelledGrade
Hawaiian Airlines (this page)thin sample12283.6%85 min0.00%B+
Southwest Airlines36581.0%36 min0.00%B+
Alaska Airlinesthin sample24378.9%55 min0.41%B+
American Airlines58777.6%80 min0.51%B+

No carrier stands out. Southwest tops the table at 81.0%, 3 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.

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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–8am40 flights85.0%
  • 8am–11am82 flights82.9%
  • 11am–2pm—
  • 2pm–5pm—
  • 5pm–8pm—
  • 8pm–5am—

Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5am–8am window is the strongest at 85.0% on time. The full set of windows spans 2 points.

Across the year

Hawaiian on PHX to HNL through the year

  • Jul–Sep 202530 flights86.7%
  • Oct–Dec 202592 flights82.6%

Scale runs 75% to 90%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 83.6% on time across 122 flights.

Split by quarter, Hawaiian on PHX 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 83.6% annual figure is the one to use.

Arrival by arrival

How late Hawaiian on PHX to HNL runs when it is late

Hawaiian on PHX to HNL often beats the schedule: 31 of 122 completed flights, 25%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 12 of the 20 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 7 reached an hour or more.

  • 15+ min early31 flights25.4%
  • Within 15 min71 flights58.2%
  • 15–29 min late12 flights9.8%
  • 30–59 min late1 flights0.8%
  • 1–2 hours late5 flights4.1%
  • 2+ hours late2 flights1.6%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 122 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

A late pushback is often recovered here: of 25 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 9 still arrived on time. 4 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for Hawaiian on PHX to HNL

The latest arrival of the period was on 3 October 2025, 14 hours 13 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of Hawaiian on PHX to HNL in the period
DateArrived late byLargest filed cause
3 October 202514 hours 13 minutesCarrier
2 October 20252 hours 12 minutesCarrier
11 September 20251 hour 57 minutesCarrier
22 December 20251 hour 13 minutesCarrier
29 December 20251 hour 13 minutesCarrier

Delay causes

Why Hawaiian runs late on this route

Carrier accounts for 100% of the 1,702 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

  • Carrier
    100%
  • National Airspace System
    0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 100%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,697 of the 1,702 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,702 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.7% 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 an hour and a half, 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 66.1% on time across 122 flights, 18 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 18 points of difference.

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 PHX 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 83.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 122 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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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.