Hawaiian Airlines Reliability

Reliability

July 2023 – December 2025

Airline Reliability Score

80/ 100Strong

Better than 97% of US reporting carriers (15 compared)

Calculated from 199,679 flights. How this is calculated

On-time arrivals

83.7%

165,249 of 197,484

Cancellation rate

1.00%

1,994 cancelled

Median arrival delay

-1 min

Average 5.5 min

Severe delays

2.9%

60+ minutes late

Delay when late

49 min

Average, when 15+ min late

Departure punctuality

85.8%

Left the gate on time

Against the 15 carriers FlyerIntel covers — all measured over the same period, from the same source — Hawaiian Airlines ranks 2nd of 15 for on-time arrivals, 3rd for cancellations and 1st for arrivals more than an hour late. The full table is at the foot of this page.

Over the most recent 12 months (2025-01 to 2025-12) Hawaiian Airlines arrived on time 82.7% of the time, against 84.5% in the 12 months before (2024-01 to 2024-12) — declining by 1.8 percentage points.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – December 2025

Why Hawaiian Airlines cancels flights

Every cancellation carries a reason code the operating carrier filed with US DOT. July 2023 – December 2025.

Hawaiian Airlines cancelled 1,994 of 199,679 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 100. The reason it filed most often was the airline, 82.8% of the cancellations it coded — about 1 in every 121 scheduled flights.

Share of cancellations

Airline82.8%

Weather11.7%

Air traffic5.5%

Security0.0%

Of 1,994 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.

What each reason means

The airline1 in 121

Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.

1,652 cancellations, 82.8% of the total.

Extreme weather1 in 857

Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.

233 cancellations, 11.7% of the total.

The air traffic system1 in 1,832

Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.

109 cancellations, 5.5% of the total.

Security—

A terminal evacuation, a security breach, screening equipment failure, or screening queues over 29 minutes.

0 cancellations, 0.0% of the total.

What these shares do not measure

A reason code is the operating carrier’s own filing. US DOT collects the reason the airline gave; it does not adjudicate it, and carriers differ in how they fill the form in. The split above describes what kind of disruption Hawaiian Airlines records, not who was at fault when it happened, and it cannot be set against another airline’s split to decide which of the two is better run.

That is measurable rather than a disclaimer. Across the 15 carriers FlyerIntel publishes, the correlation between how much of its own canceling a carrier attributes to itself and how often it actually cancels is -0.46 — negative, which is the wrong sign for a ranking of fault and about the right sign for a difference in filing convention. Hawaiian Airlines attributed 82.8% of its cancellations to itself and cancelled 1.00% of its flights; SkyWest Airlines attributed 2.7% and cancelled 1.33%. The airline taking the most blame is the one that cancels least.

The figure on this page that does compare cleanly between airlines is the cancellation rate in Reliability, because it counts cancellations instead of reading the reason filed for them. The First Flight of the Day sets out the same finding from the airport-carrier records, and declines on the strength of it to compare any two carriers’ codes.

Ordinary bad weather is filed under air traffic, so weather’s full share is larger than its bar.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – December 2025 · These are the reason codes Hawaiian Airlines itself filed with US DOT — the reason the airline gave, not an independent finding of fault, and airlines differ in how they apply them. FlyerIntel publishes the split only for carriers with at least 500 coded cancellations in the period; 1,994 were recorded. Whatever the reason code, a cancelled flight may qualify for an automatic refund under DOT’s rule — the refund checker covers eligibility.

Reliability over time

24

25

Each column is one month of Hawaiian Airlines operations. The strongest single month of the period was September 2024 at 90.1% on time; the weakest was December 2025 at 72.0%. Individual months move for reasons that do not repeat — a hurricane season, a technology outage, a winter storm — which is why the section below combines the same data by calendar month instead.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – December 2025

Best and worst months to fly

Every Hawaiian Airlines January stacked on every other January, and so on through the year.

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Hawaiian Airlines — best and worst months to fly
Month	Flights	On time	Cancelled
January	13,266	79.8%	1.69%
February	12,080	81.8%	0.74%
March	13,266	85.2%	1.17%
April	12,934	83.7%	1.11%
May	13,637	83.3%	1.40%
June	13,436	83.1%	0.43%
July	20,971	82.6%	0.77%
August	20,799	85.8%	1.11%
September	19,596	89.3%	0.57%
October	20,114	82.1%	1.16%
November	19,474	85.4%	1.12%
December	20,106	80.3%	0.90%

Combining 2 to 3 years of operations by calendar month, Hawaiian Airlines is at its best in September, when 89.3% of arrivals were on time, and at its worst in January at 79.8% — a spread of 9.5 percentage points between two months of the same airline. Cancellations peak in the same month: January at 1.69% of flights, against 0.43% in June.

This is the shape of the calendar, not a forecast. It says that if you book Hawaiian Airlines in January you are booking into the part of the year when this airline has historically been least punctual, and that a September itinerary starts from a better position. It does not say anything about a particular date, and it cannot: the figure behind each month is 2 to 3 years of that same month combined, precisely so that one storm does not decide the answer.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – December 2025 · Rates are recalculated from the summed monthly counts, so a heavy month carries more weight than a light one.

Best time to fly Hawaiian Airlines

How Hawaiian Airlines departures have done at each hour of each weekday, across its whole network.

By day and hour

On-time arrival rate for each weekday and scheduled departure hour, in local time at the airport each flight leaves from, so the grid mixes time zones across the network.

Sunday 6–7 AM was the most reliable slot for Hawaiian Airlines (96.9% on time, 975 flights) and Friday 8–9 PM the least (72.8%, 859 flights).

Hour of departure matters more than day of the week: hourly averages sit a typical 4.5 points from the network-wide rate, weekday averages 1.8 points.

On-time arrival rate for Hawaiian Airlines by weekday and scheduled departure hour, local time. Each button reads out one slot.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
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On-time rate, % · stronger color, fewer on time

65–69
70–74
75–79
80–84
85–89
90–94
95–99

Fewer than 120 flights, not scored
Most reliable slot
Least reliable slot

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – December 2025 · On time is arrival within 15 minutes of schedule. Cells round to whole percentages; the table shows one decimal.

Best and worst slots are named only among slots with 500+ flights, and only when the gap is larger than sampling error. Departures before 1 AM (6 flights) are not drawn: no slot in those hours has enough flights to score.

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On-time arrival rate (%) with flights beneath, by scheduled departure hour and weekday for Hawaiian Airlines. A dash means fewer than 120 flights, which are not scored.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
1 AM–2 AM	74.6% on time130 flights	65.1% on time130 flights	78.1% on time129 flights	79.2% on time130 flights	78.5% on time131 flights	74.8% on time131 flights	76.7% on time129 flights
2 AM–3 AM	10 flights, too few to score	10 flights, too few to score	10 flights, too few to score	10 flights, too few to score	11 flights, too few to score	10 flights, too few to score	11 flights, too few to score
3 AM–4 AM	0 flights, too few to score	0 flights, too few to score	0 flights, too few to score	0 flights, too few to score	0 flights, too few to score	0 flights, too few to score	0 flights, too few to score
4 AM–5 AM	0 flights, too few to score	1 flight, too few to score	0 flights, too few to score	0 flights, too few to score	0 flights, too few to score	0 flights, too few to score	0 flights, too few to score
5 AM–6 AM	94.2% on time364 flights	94.6% on time390 flights	97.2% on time365 flights	97.6% on time374 flights	94.9% on time375 flights	10 flights, too few to score	20 flights, too few to score
6 AM–7 AM	94.6% on time1,348 flights	93.2% on time1,339 flights	95.3% on time1,321 flights	94.8% on time1,328 flights	95.5% on time1,353 flights	95.9% on time1,063 flights	96.9% on time975 flights
7 AM–8 AM	86.4% on time2,712 flights	87.7% on time2,628 flights	88.1% on time2,602 flights	87.1% on time2,659 flights	86.9% on time2,704 flights	87.7% on time2,477 flights	87.6% on time2,253 flights
8 AM–9 AM	86.4% on time2,672 flights	86.2% on time2,536 flights	88.4% on time2,390 flights	86.0% on time2,641 flights	85.8% on time2,568 flights	87.6% on time2,498 flights	88.7% on time2,257 flights
9 AM–10 AM	87.7% on time2,380 flights	87.9% on time2,231 flights	87.1% on time2,248 flights	86.9% on time2,343 flights	86.5% on time2,387 flights	87.0% on time2,340 flights	89.8% on time2,223 flights
10 AM–11 AM	85.8% on time2,156 flights	84.6% on time2,043 flights	83.6% on time2,038 flights	83.5% on time2,131 flights	83.0% on time2,137 flights	85.9% on time2,109 flights	88.1% on time2,126 flights
11 AM–12 PM	87.2% on time2,041 flights	87.8% on time1,975 flights	85.8% on time1,975 flights	84.3% on time2,022 flights	82.8% on time2,032 flights	87.0% on time2,028 flights	88.7% on time2,030 flights
12 PM–1 PM	83.2% on time2,142 flights	85.4% on time2,129 flights	81.4% on time2,099 flights	81.3% on time2,143 flights	78.8% on time2,136 flights	81.2% on time2,141 flights	83.9% on time2,137 flights
1 PM–2 PM	78.1% on time2,227 flights	79.6% on time2,214 flights	77.5% on time2,232 flights	75.6% on time2,248 flights	73.0% on time2,236 flights	76.5% on time2,259 flights	79.1% on time2,247 flights
2 PM–3 PM	76.4% on time2,085 flights	80.9% on time1,913 flights	80.8% on time1,995 flights	75.6% on time2,022 flights	74.5% on time2,076 flights	77.7% on time2,037 flights	80.9% on time2,111 flights
3 PM–4 PM	79.7% on time1,915 flights	83.8% on time1,807 flights	81.3% on time1,863 flights	75.8% on time1,892 flights	73.5% on time1,922 flights	80.4% on time1,898 flights	80.9% on time1,953 flights
4 PM–5 PM	79.0% on time1,756 flights	84.6% on time1,582 flights	84.2% on time1,559 flights	78.5% on time1,726 flights	73.7% on time1,643 flights	82.0% on time1,568 flights	82.0% on time1,661 flights
5 PM–6 PM	81.6% on time1,597 flights	85.6% on time1,477 flights	84.3% on time1,476 flights	79.0% on time1,564 flights	74.8% on time1,626 flights	86.3% on time1,465 flights	82.5% on time1,641 flights
6 PM–7 PM	82.8% on time1,167 flights	87.2% on time1,153 flights	85.5% on time1,146 flights	78.9% on time1,173 flights	74.6% on time1,263 flights	87.2% on time1,208 flights	82.6% on time1,324 flights
7 PM–8 PM	83.5% on time1,126 flights	89.5% on time1,013 flights	88.0% on time1,005 flights	81.5% on time1,135 flights	78.1% on time1,268 flights	88.8% on time1,152 flights	84.5% on time1,318 flights
8 PM–9 PM	82.5% on time691 flights	90.1% on time507 flights	84.9% on time512 flights	78.7% on time736 flights	72.8% on time859 flights	88.3% on time800 flights	80.5% on time885 flights
9 PM–10 PM	82.0% on time493 flights	82.3% on time405 flights	85.8% on time396 flights	81.8% on time473 flights	82.1% on time518 flights	86.5% on time494 flights	82.6% on time534 flights
10 PM–11 PM	71.5% on time138 flights	81.6% on time125 flights	85.1% on time135 flights	73.6% on time149 flights	74.8% on time152 flights	77.3% on time151 flights	73.0% on time153 flights
11 PM–12 AM	74.4% on time270 flights	77.6% on time166 flights	78.3% on time152 flights	74.5% on time274 flights	67.3% on time151 flights	77.5% on time138 flights	65.3% on time145 flights

Why Hawaiian Airlines runs late

Share of total reported delay minutes by cause, as classified by the operating carrier.

The airline61.0%

crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control

Late-arriving aircraft33.6%

the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late

Weather2.8%

weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically

Air traffic control2.2%

airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control

Security0.5%

screening or terminal security incidents

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for Hawaiian Airlines. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

The largest single category for Hawaiian Airlines is the airline itself, at 61.0% of attributed minutes. That is the one category squarely inside the carrier’s own control — crew, maintenance, boarding, fueling — and across the 15 carriers covered here it accounts for 33.9% of attributed minutes. That is 27.1 percentage points more of its delay minutes falling inside the airline than is typical for this group.

These shares describe how delay minutes were divided, not how often delays happened. A carrier with an unusually large air-traffic-control share is not necessarily worse run; it may simply fly more of its schedule through congested airspace. The one category that is squarely the airline’s own is the carrier category, which is why it is the one compared above.

Source: US DOT BTS delay cause categories · July 2023 – December 2025 · Cause minutes are only reported for arrivals delayed 15 minutes or more.

How Hawaiian Airlines handles bad weather

Departures by the weather at the origin in the hour they were scheduled to leave, July 2023 – December 2025.

4% of Hawaiian Airlines’ weather-matched departures left in an hour of bad weather at the origin. 1.8% of them were cancelled, 1.9 times the 0.9% cancelled in normal hours, and 72.8% of those that flew arrived on time, against 82.9%. Those hours held 7% of the airline’s cancelled departures.

In bad weather Hawaiian Airlines cancelled about as many flights as the other carriers: 1.5% of its departures in those hours were cancelled, against 1.4% for the other carriers at the same airports in the same months. Its flights that operated arrived on time 70.6% of the time, 7.2 points below the others’ 77.8%.

Bad-weather hours against normal hours

Scheduled departures, July 2023 – December 2025

Hawaiian Airlines cancellation and on-time rates in bad-weather and normal hours at the origin, with the other carriers at the same airports and months
Weather at the origin	Departures	Cancelled	Arrived on time
Normal hours	99,145	0.9%	82.9%
Other carriers	99,145compared	0.7%	87.1%
Bad-weather hours	4,5424% of all matched	1.8%1.9 times normal	72.8%10.1 points below normal
Other carriers	2,915compared	1.4%	77.8%

Bad weather means IFR or LIFR conditions, or a storm, snow, ice, fog, heavy rain or high wind, at the origin; normal means VFR with none of those. Marginal hours are in neither row, and were 5% of Hawaiian Airlines’ matched departures. Cancelled is the share of scheduled departures. The other carriers’ rows apply their rate in each airport and month to the departures Hawaiian Airlines had there.

This is the weather reported at the origin in the hour a flight was scheduled to leave, July 2023 – December 2025. It leaves out the weather at the destination and on the way, and an hour takes the worst conditions any report in it gave. Weather was matched to 54.8% of Hawaiian Airlines’ scheduled departures: the rest left from airports with no archived weather, in hours with no report, or at a scheduled time the flight records cannot place exactly. The comparison covers 295 airport-months in which Hawaiian Airlines flew in bad weather; the other carriers are held to the same airport and calendar month, not the same hour of the day or the same aircraft, so a carrier that schedules more of those departures at the busiest or the quietest times is not fully adjusted for. 1,627 of its bad-weather departures were in an airport and month where the other carriers had fewer than 120 of their own, and are not in that comparison.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS flight records and Iowa Environmental Mesonet weather reports · July 2023 – December 2025 · Where the weather comes from, and its limits. All covered airports side by side: What Weather Costs Each Airport.

Turning aircraft around at Hawaiian Airlines

Time on the ground between one flight and the next of the same aircraft, and what a late arrival does to the next departure, July 2023 – December 2025.

The median Hawaiian Airlines turn is scheduled for 39 minutes on the ground and takes 40 minutes, against 56 minutes and 63 minutes across all airlines. Hawaiian Airlines schedules its aircraft a shorter time on the ground than the network does. 14.2% of its turns began with an aircraft that landed 15 or more minutes late, against 18.9% for the network.

When the aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late (21,745 turns, 39 minutes late on average), 74% of the turns were finished in no more than the scheduled ground time, against 68% across all airlines. 64% of those flights left 15 or more minutes late, against 72%. After an aircraft that landed on time, 6% did (network 11%).

Given the turn lengths it schedules, the network’s rates would give 62% finished in the schedule and 74% leaving late. By that measure Hawaiian Airlines finished more late turns in the schedule and passed lateness on less often than the network would have. 44% of its late-inbound turns had a scheduled turn of 30 to 44 minutes, against 20% of the network’s.

Turns, Hawaiian Airlines against the network

152,712 turns, July 2023 – December 2025

Hawaiian Airlines aircraft turns against all airlines: scheduled and actual time on the ground and what a late inbound aircraft does
Measure	Hawaiian Airlines	All airlines	All airlines, same turn lengths
Median scheduled turn	39 min	56 min	—
Median actual turn	40 min	63 min	—
Turns that began with an aircraft 15+ minutes late	14%	19%	—
Late turns finished within the schedule	74%	68%	62%
Late inbound that left 15+ minutes late	64%	72%	74%
On-time inbound that left 15+ minutes late	6%	11%	—

Late means 15 or more minutes. A turn finishes within the schedule when the aircraft spent no more time on the ground than the schedule gave it. The last column applies the network’s rate in each scheduled-turn band (under 30 minutes up to 3 to 6 hours) to the number of Hawaiian Airlines turns in that band, so it shows what the same turn lengths would give across all airlines.

A turn pairs an aircraft’s landing with its next departure by tail number; the aircraft is never named. These 152,712 turns are 76% of Hawaiian Airlines’ flights in the period; the rest are an aircraft’s first flight after a long stay, flights without a usable inbound, and cancelled flights. Ground time is measured from the gate: the scheduled turn plus the departing flight’s delay minus the inbound’s arrival delay. Overnight stays (6 hours or more on the ground), cancelled flights and flights whose inbound diverted are not turns here. Turns scheduled under 30 minutes are a small share and are kept, but they are rarely a plan for that aircraft (more often a swap or recovery, with the flight waiting for an aircraft that was not the one scheduled), so most of them across the network leave late even after an on-time landing. A flight that an airline covered with a different aircraft is linked to the one that flew it, not the one first planned.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS flight records · July 2023 – December 2025 · All airlines side by side: How Fast an Aircraft Turns When It Has To.

What sets Hawaiian Airlines apart

Where Hawaiian Airlines differs most from the other covered airlines, July 2023 – December 2025.

Hawaiian Airlines flights scheduled to leave at 7 PM arrive on time 84.6% of the time, 15.6 points better than the 69.0% the other covered airlines manage at that hour.

11 PM is where Hawaiian Airlines falls furthest behind the other airlines: 73.8% of its 11 PM departures arrive on time, 5.3 points below the 79.1% for that hour elsewhere.

July suits Hawaiian Airlines more than it suits the other airlines: 82.6% on time against 71.0%, 11.6 points ahead.

OAK is where Hawaiian Airlines stands out most against local competition: 86.6% of its departures arrive on time, 4.7 points above the 81.9% of the other airlines out of the same airport.

Out of SEA, Hawaiian Airlines arrives on time 66.6% of the time, 12.6 points below the 79.2% the other airlines there manage.

Taxi-out for Hawaiian Airlines averages 12.8 minutes, 5.5 minutes less than the 18.3 minutes at the other covered airlines.

Hawaiian Airlines against the other airlines

July 2023 – December 2025

Where Hawaiian Airlines differs most from the other covered airlines, with the flights behind each figure
Measure	Hawaiian Airlines	Elsewhere	Gap	Flights behind it
Hour: 7 PM departures	84.6%	69.0%	+15.6 pts	7,945 here, 1,149,138 elsewhere
Hour: 11 PM departures	73.8%	79.1%	−5.3 pts	1,290 here, 179,353 elsewhere
Month: July	82.6%	71.0%	+11.6 pts	20,788 here, 2,403,052 elsewhere
Airport: OAK	86.6%	81.9%	+4.7 pts	2,419 here, 113,885 elsewhere
Airport: SEA	66.6%	79.2%	−12.6 pts	2,765 here, 501,669 elsewhere
Taxi-out: Departures	12.8 min	18.3 min	−5.5 min	197,749 here, 21,195,225 elsewhere

“Elsewhere” is every other covered airline together, from the same aggregates as this page. Hours and months appear only where both sides have at least 120 completed flights; airports only where Hawaiian Airlines and everyone else there each have at least 500. Gaps must be at least 2 points and 2 standard errors, and only the largest in each direction is shown. Airlines fly different airports, so the hour and month rows partly compare different traffic; the airport rows compare like with like. The taxi figure is weighted by departures, mixes airports, and has no error estimate, so it appears from 2 minutes.

Where this airline flies

Departure performance at the airports FlyerIntel covers.

Airports served

23

17 of them covered in detail here

Departures from its largest base

40.4%

HNL · Honolulu

Departures from its top three

68.6%

HNL, OGG, LIH

Hawaiian Airlines departed from 23 airports in this period, but 68.6% of those departures left from just three of them. On a network that concentrated, a handful of airports account for most of what a traveler ever experiences of the airline, and their rows in the table below carry far more weight than the network-wide average above.

Where this airline flies
Airport	Departures	On time	Cancelled	Median delay
HNL Honolulu	80,764	84.3%	0.95%	0 min
LAX Los Angeles	5,594	76.2%	1.14%	-1 min
LAS Las Vegas	3,675	72.3%	0.41%	2 min
SEA Seattle	2,813	66.6%	1.49%	4 min
OAK Oakland	2,504	86.6%	3.15%	-7 min
SMF Sacramento	2,419	81.9%	0.83%	-4 min
SFO San Francisco	2,090	78.3%	3.64%	-2 min
PDX Portland	1,942	73.1%	0.67%	1 min
SAN San Diego	1,937	67.8%	0.83%	4 min
SJC San Jose	1,730	88.7%	0.75%	-9 min
JFK New York	920	68.8%	0.76%	2 min
PHX Phoenix	915	80.3%	0.11%	-2 min

Strongest airports

OAK (86.6%), HNL (84.3%), SMF (81.9%)

Weakest airports

SEA (66.6%), LAS (72.3%), LAX (76.2%)

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – December 2025 · Airports where this carrier flew fewer than 500 departures are not listed.

Route performance

Hawaiian Airlines’ own on-time rate on each route — this carrier's flights only, which can differ from the route's rate across every airline that flies it.

Most reliable

HNL→LAXHonolulu to Los Angeles72.6%LAX→HNLLos Angeles to Honolulu68.2%

Least reliable

LAX→HNLLos Angeles to Honolulu68.2%HNL→LAXHonolulu to Los Angeles72.6%

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – December 2025 · Routes with fewer than 600 flights by this carrier are not ranked.

Where Hawaiian Airlines flies best and worst

The airports and routes where Hawaiian Airlines is on time most and least often, set beside the other airlines at the same place.

Hawaiian Airlines arrives on time 86.6% of the time at OAK, 4.7 points better than the 81.9% for the other airlines there.

HNL is a strong airport for Hawaiian Airlines at 84.3%, but the other airlines there do about as well at 86.1%, so the airport is easy rather than the airline special.

SMF is a strong airport for Hawaiian Airlines at 81.9%, but the other airlines there do about as well at 83.2%, so the airport is easy rather than the airline special.

Hawaiian Airlines manages 66.6% at SEA, 12.6 points below the 79.2% for the other airlines there.

Hawaiian Airlines manages 72.3% at LAS, 5.7 points below the 78.0% for the other airlines there.

Hawaiian Airlines manages 76.2% at LAX, 5.3 points below the 81.5% for the other airlines there.

Hawaiian Airlines posts 72.6% on HNL to LAX, one of its best, yet the other airlines on it reach 85.7%, 13.1 points more.

Hawaiian Airlines manages 68.2% on LAX to HNL, 12.9 points below the 81.1% for the other airlines on it.

Airports, best and worst

Airports, best and worst: Hawaiian Airlines on-time rate beside the other airlines, with the flights behind each figure
Place	Hawaiian Airlines	Other airlines	Flights behind it
OAK	86.6%	81.9%	2,419 here, 113,885 others
HNL	84.3%	86.1%	79,915 here, 104,497 others
SMF	81.9%	83.2%	2,396 here, 168,564 others
SEA	66.6%	79.2%	2,765 here, 501,669 others
LAS	72.3%	78.0%	3,653 here, 559,250 others
LAX	76.2%	81.5%	5,521 here, 583,169 others

Routes, best and worst

Routes, best and worst: Hawaiian Airlines on-time rate beside the other airlines, with the flights behind each figure
Place	Hawaiian Airlines	Other airlines	Flights behind it
HNL to LAX	72.6%	85.7%	3,003 here, 13,912 others
LAX to HNL	68.2%	81.1%	2,999 here, 13,926 others

July 2023 – December 2025. Airports need at least 2,000 completed flights by Hawaiian Airlines, routes 600. The other airlines are everyone else at the same airport or on the same route, compared only where they have at least 500 (airports) or 200 (routes) completed flights; a gap counts as ahead or behind only at 2 points and 2 standard errors. Route figures are for one direction. Airlines fly different times of day and aircraft, so a gap is a comparison, not a cause.

Compare airlines

Every carrier on FlyerIntel is measured the same way, over the same period, using the same source data. That is the whole point of the table: airline marketing reports punctuality on definitions of its own choosing, and this does not.

Compare airlines
Airline	Score	On time	Cancelled	60+ min late	Flights
Endeavor Air	70	85.1%	2.30%	6.0%	304,230
Hawaiian Airlines	80	83.7%	1.00%	2.9%	199,679
Republic Airways	61	82.3%	3.26%	6.7%	1,004,281
Delta Air Lines	71	82.1%	1.16%	6.3%	3,146,502
SkyWest Airlines	64	80.4%	1.33%	7.9%	2,433,643
Envoy Air	66	80.1%	1.80%	6.6%	886,878
United Airlines	66	79.7%	1.21%	7.5%	2,418,979
Alaska Airlines	71	78.9%	1.28%	5.0%	813,732
Southwest Airlines	71	78.2%	0.86%	6.0%	4,371,639
PSA Airlines	44	75.8%	3.43%	10.4%	717,562
Allegiant Air	58	75.7%	0.94%	9.5%	381,495
Spirit Airlines	54	75.5%	2.06%	9.6%	635,598
American Airlines	52	74.8%	1.76%	10.0%	3,019,376
JetBlue	45	72.5%	2.19%	11.7%	745,492
Frontier Airlines	45	71.8%	2.09%	11.5%	629,235

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – December 2025 · Score is the FlyerIntel Airline Reliability Score. See all airlines ranked →

Data and methodology

Calculated by FlyerIntel from 199,679 Hawaiian Airlines flight records published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, covering July 2023 – December 2025. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately, because folding them in would flatter a carrier that cancels rather than runs late. Figures below a published sample threshold are omitted rather than shown with a caveat.

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Analysis last recomputed September 26, 2026

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