Carrier route record
HASLC→HNL
Hawaiian Airlines · Salt Lake City to Honolulu
- Flights
- 122
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 14%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Hawaiian Airlines.
Hawaiian on SLC to HNL lands a B+, about a point better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.9 hours on average. That rests on 122 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Hawaiian on SLC 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
78.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 122 completed flights
Avg delay
176 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
75.6%
Every carrier on SLC to HNL, 858 flights
These figures cover 122 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Hawaiian against every carrier on SLC to HNL
Hawaiian flew 122 of the 858 flights on SLC to HNL, about 14% of it. Its 78.7% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 75.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 80.9% to Alaska at 63.3%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 492 | 80.9% | 74 min | 3.05% | B− |
| Hawaiian Airlines (this page)thin sample | 122 | 78.7% | 176 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlinesthin sample | 244 | 63.3% | 58 min | 1.23% | D |
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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.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Hawaiian's SLC to HNL record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 78.7% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
Hawaiian on SLC to HNL through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights75.0%
Scale runs 65% to 95%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 78.7% on time across 122 flights.
Split by quarter, Hawaiian on SLC 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 78.7% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late Hawaiian on SLC to HNL runs when it is late
Hawaiian on SLC to HNL often beats the schedule: 45 of 122 completed flights, 37%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 26 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 4 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early45 flights36.9%
- Within 15 min51 flights41.8%
- 15–29 min late10 flights8.2%
- 30–59 min late4 flights3.3%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights3.3%
- 2+ hours late8 flights6.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 122 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 37 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 15 still arrived on time. 4 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Hawaiian on SLC to HNL
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 December 2025, 15 hours 51 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in December 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 December 2025 | 15 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 December 2025 | 13 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 November 2025 | 11 hours 32 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 18 November 2025 | 7 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 December 2025 | 5 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Hawaiian runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 59% of the 4,580 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%Carrier
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 15%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
- 0%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 15% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,580 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 59%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,685 of the 4,580 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
9.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 2,994 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 82.6% on time across 122 flights, 4 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 4 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 SLC 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 78.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 122 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- SLC to HNL, every carrier
- Hawaiian on HNL to SLC, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on SLC to HNL80.9%
- Alaska Airlines on SLC to HNL63.3%
- Hawaiian Airlines network-wide record
- Salt Lake City International (SLC) delay statistics
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) delay statistics
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
- Connecting flights: how much buffer the data says you need
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.