Carrier route record
HASJC→HNL
Hawaiian Airlines · San Jose to Honolulu
- Flights
- 120
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 15%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Hawaiian Airlines.
Hawaiian on SJC to HNL earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 120 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Hawaiian's SJC to HNL record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 127 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 120 completed flights
Avg delay
95 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.4%
Every carrier on SJC to HNL, 807 flights
These figures cover 120 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 SJC to HNL
Hawaiian flew 120 of the 807 flights on SJC to HNL, about 15% of it. Its 90.0% on time is 10 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Hawaiian at 90.0% to Southwest at 75.6%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaiian Airlines (this page)thin sample | 120 | 90.0% | 95 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Alaska Airlinesthin sample | 242 | 84.3% | 50 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 445 | 75.6% | 46 min | 0.22% | 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 120 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Hawaiian's SJC to HNL record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 90.0% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
Hawaiian on SJC to HNL through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights88.9%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 90.0% on time across 120 flights.
Split by quarter, Hawaiian on SJC to HNL logged 30 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 90 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 90.0% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late Hawaiian on SJC to HNL runs when it is late
Hawaiian on SJC to HNL often beats the schedule: 42 of 120 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 7 of the 12 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 3 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early42 flights35.0%
- Within 15 min66 flights55.0%
- 15–29 min late7 flights5.8%
- 30–59 min late2 flights1.7%
- 1–2 hours late1 flights0.8%
- 2+ hours late2 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 120 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 7 of 120 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for Hawaiian on SJC to HNL
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 December 2025, 12 hours 16 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in October 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 December 2025 | 12 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 October 2025 | 2 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 12 October 2025 | 1 hour 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 October 2025 | 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 December 2025 | 30 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why Hawaiian runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 63% of the 1,139 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 63%Late-arriving aircraft
- 36%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
63% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 1,139 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 63 to one. The split is drawn from 1,139 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 36%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 408 of the 1,139 delay minutes reported here.
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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.5% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
At 2,417 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 73.1% on time across 120 flights, 17 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 17 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 120 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 SJC to HNL
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 120 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 90.0% 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
- SJC to HNL, every carrier
- Hawaiian on HNL to SJC, the return leg
- Alaska Airlines on SJC to HNL84.3%
- Southwest Airlines on SJC to HNL75.6%
- Hawaiian Airlines network-wide record
- Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International (SJC) delay statistics
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
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.