HNL Airport: 85.3% on time, worst at 1 PM

HNL right now

Live conditions where a permitted source publishes them, and the historical record where none does.

No disruption reported

Aviation weather is not currently a factor.

Departures at this hour

84.0% leave on time

22:00–22:59 local · 6,012 departures on record

Typical taxi out19 min

Median arrival11 min early

Cancelled0.8%

When flights run late in this hour, most of the delay is attributed to the airline.

Historical pattern for HNL from US DOT BTS — not a live reading.

Aviation weatherVFR

78°F · wind 14 kt

Minimal operational impact. Conditions are not a notable factor for operations right now.

Updated 07:53 UTC

Forecast issued 05:36Z.

Updated 05:36 UTC

Aircraft seen now

On the field1

Airborne within 15 NM1

Departed in the last hour9

Arrived in the last hour5

Below 10,000 ft, so aircraft overflying at cruise are not counted. These are observations, not an operational status: a count is a floor, since receiver coverage varies and a movement between two samples can be missed.

Updated 08:42 UTC

Aircraft observations from ADSB.lol (opens in a new tab) (Katia Esposito and contributing feeders), under the ODbL 1.0 (opens in a new tab). Derived data.

FlyerIntel shows live values only where a permitted source provides them. Sections without data are left empty rather than estimated.

Airport reliability

Departures from HNL, July 2023 – July 2026.

Airport Reliability Score

82/ 100Strong

Better than 99% of major US airports covered by FlyerIntel (64 compared)

Calculated from 186,300 flights. How this is calculated

Departures arriving on time

85.3%

157,322 of 184,412 completed

Cancellation rate

0.90%

1,673 cancelled

Median arrival delay

-3 min

Average 2.4 min

Severe delays

3.1%

Arrived 60+ minutes late

Delay when late

52 min

Average, when 15+ min late

Departures analyzed

186,300

186,355 arrivals

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

What stands out

How this airport compares to others like it, not just to itself.

Airline drives an unusually large share of cancellations at this airport, a bigger share than 99% of 61 comparable airports.

Airline accounts for 77.7% of coded cancellations at this airport, against 25.7% across every covered airport.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Ranked against every other airport with the same kind of figure and at least 61 in the comparison.

Why flights are cancelled at HNL

Every cancellation carries a reason code filed by the airline that operated the flight. Departures, July 2023 – July 2026.

The airline accounts for 77.9% of cancelled departures from HNL — about 1 in every 143 scheduled departures. That is 52 points higher than the 25.8% recorded across every airport FlyerIntel covers.

Share of cancellations

Airline77.9%

Weather16.6%

Air traffic5.4%

Security0.2%

Of 1,673 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.

What each reason means

The airline1 in 143

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

1,303 cancellations, 77.9% of the total.

Extreme weather1 in 673

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

277 cancellations, 16.6% of the total.

The air traffic system1 in 2,070

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

90 cancellations, 5.4% of the total.

Security1 in 62,100

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

3 cancellations, 0.2% of the total.

1,673 of 186,300 scheduled departures from HNL were cancelled. 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 – July 2026 · Reason codes are each airline’s own filing, not an independent finding of fault. Shown for airports with at least 500 coded cancellations; 1,673 were recorded at HNL.

Why flights run late at HNL

Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on departures from HNL.

The airline54.2%

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

Late-arriving aircraft35.7%

the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late

Air traffic control7.4%

airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control

Weather2.2%

weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically

Security0.5%

screening or terminal security incidents

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for departures from HNL. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Of the 22,090 departures from HNL that left 15 or more minutes late and have a known inbound aircraft, 55% followed a flight that landed 15 or more minutes late. The other 45% left late even though the aircraft had come in on time or early. Across the 64 covered airports that share runs from 47% to 73%, with a median of 62%; HNL’s is the 15th lowest.

The late flight is the one the same aircraft flew into HNL just before, found from the tail number in the DOT file. Airlines and hours differ from one airport to the next, so this describes the departures from HNL and does not rate the airport.

An airport is only partly the author of its own delays. Late-arriving aircraft describes the national schedule arriving here more than anything about this airfield. Air traffic control covers airspace and airport capacity, which is where a congested airport shows up; only the airline category sits squarely inside the carriers’ own operation. How differently they run it is further down this page.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

What weather costs at HNL

Departures from HNL by the weather at the airport in the hour they were scheduled to leave, July 2023 – July 2026.

2.2% of scheduled departures from HNL left in an hour of bad weather. 2.3% of them were cancelled, against 0.8% in normal conditions, and 75.5% of the ones that flew arrived on time, against 85.7%. Those hours held 6% of all cancelled departures. That is about 60 more cancellations than the normal-conditions rate would give.

Cancellations were highest in heavy rain hours: 7.4% of 703 departures, 8.9 times the normal rate.

Airlines filed 17% of HNL’s coded cancellations under extreme weather. By the weather at the airport in the scheduled hour, 6% of cancelled departures were in bad-weather hours. A code is the airline’s stated reason and an hour’s weather is what the airport reported, so the two need not match.

By weather

Scheduled departures, July 2023 – July 2026

Cancellation and on-time rates at HNL by the weather at the airport in the scheduled departure hour
Weather at the airport	Departures	Cancelled	Left on time	Arrived on time	Avg. departure delay
Normal conditionsVFR with no thunderstorm, snow or ice, fog, heavy rain or high wind	179,07096.2% of all	0.8%	86.1%	85.7%	6.3 min
Any bad weatherIFR or LIFR, or a thunderstorm, snow or ice, fog, heavy rain or high wind	4,1772.2% of all	2.3%2.7 times normal	78.3%	75.5%10.2 points below normal	13.1 min
MVFRceiling 1,000 to 3,000 feet or visibility 3 to 5 miles	3,2261.7% of all	3.5%4.2 times normal	77.2%	76.5%9.2 points below normal	14.1 min
IFRceiling 500 to 999 feet or visibility 1 to under 3 miles	8780.5% of all	4.6%5.5 times normal	64.4%	58.8%26.9 points below normal	26.5 min
Thunderstorma thunderstorm reported at the airport	1380.1% of all	2.2%2.6 times normal	47.4%	45.2%40.5 points below normal	41.8 min
Heavy rainheavy rain reported at the airport	7030.4% of all	7.4%8.9 times normal	66.6%	60.2%25.5 points below normal	27.0 min
High windwind of 25 knots or more, or gusts of 30 knots or more	2,9941.6% of all	1.5%1.8 times normal	81.9%	80.0%5.7 points below normal	9.5 min
Low ceilinga broken or overcast layer under 1,000 feet	1500.1% of all	2.0%2.4 times normal	63.9%	62.6%23.1 points below normal	18.8 min
Low visibilityvisibility under 3 miles	9220.5% of all	4.8%5.7 times normal	64.1%	57.9%27.8 points below normal	27.0 min

A departure is counted in every row its hour fits, so the rows overlap and do not add up. Left on time is a departure under 15 minutes late, and arrived on time an arrival under 15 minutes late; cancelled is the share of scheduled departures. Rows with fewer than 120 departures are not scored. Too few departures to score: LIFR (72), fog (27).

This is the weather reported at HNL in the hour a flight was scheduled to leave. It leaves out the weather at the destination and on the way, weather that arrived after the scheduled time, and anything else that goes wrong in a bad hour. An hour takes the worst conditions any report in it gave. Weather was matched to 99.9% of the airport’s scheduled departures; the rest left in hours with no report, or at a scheduled time the flight records cannot place exactly. Bad-weather hours are compared with normal hours at the same airport, not with what the same flights would have done in a clear sky: they also fall more often in some seasons and at some times of day.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS flight records and Iowa Environmental Mesonet weather reports · July 2023 – July 2026 · Where the weather comes from, and its limits. All covered airports side by side: What Weather Costs Each Airport.

Turning aircraft around at HNL

Time on the ground between one flight and the next of the same aircraft at HNL, and what a late arrival does to the next departure, July 2023 – July 2026.

The median turn at HNL is scheduled for 63 minutes on the ground and takes 70 minutes, against 56 minutes and 63 minutes across all airports. Aircraft are given longer on the ground here than at the typical airport. The 7 minutes by which the typical turn runs over its schedule are about what it is across all airports. 15.2% of turns here began with an aircraft that landed 15 or more minutes late, below the 18.9% for all airports.

When the aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late (21,841 turns here, 44 minutes late on average), 80% of the turns were finished in no more than the scheduled ground time, against 68% across all airports. 53% of those flights left 15 or more minutes late, against 72%. After an aircraft that landed on time, 8% did (all airports 11%).

Given the turn lengths scheduled here, the network’s rates would give 75% finished in the schedule and 61% leaving late. HNL does better on both counts: more late turns are finished in the schedule and fewer late aircraft become late departures, so the turn recovers lateness here beyond what the schedule explains. 28% of its late-inbound turns had a scheduled turn of 90 minutes to 3 hours, against 12% across all airports.

Turns at HNL against all airports

143,723 turns, July 2023 – July 2026

Aircraft turns at HNL against all airports: scheduled and actual time on the ground and what a late inbound aircraft does
Measure	HNL	All airports	All airports, same turn lengths
Median scheduled turn	63 min	56 min	—
Median actual turn	70 min	63 min	—
Turns that began with an aircraft 15+ minutes late	15%	19%	—
Late turns finished within the schedule	80%	68%	75%
Late inbound that left 15+ minutes late	53%	72%	61%
On-time inbound that left 15+ minutes late	8%	11%	—

The last column is the network’s rate at the turn lengths scheduled at HNL, band by band from under 30 minutes to 3 to 6 hours. A turn finishes within the schedule when the aircraft spent no more time on the ground than the schedule gave it.

A turn pairs an aircraft’s landing at HNL with its next departure from it by tail number; the aircraft is never named. These 143,723 turns are 77% of the flights that left HNL 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 runs from the gate. Turns under 30 minutes are kept, but most leave late even after an on-time landing. Airlines set their own turn schedules, so this describes the airlines that fly at HNL and does not rate the airport.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS flight records · July 2023 – July 2026 · Airports side by side: Where a Late Aircraft Gets Its Time Back.

What sets HNL apart

Where HNL’s hours, months, airlines and taxi time differ most from the other airports, July 2023 – July 2026.

Flights scheduled to leave HNL at 8 PM arrive on time 88.3% of the time, 19.9 points better than the 68.4% for that hour at the other airports.

July treats HNL better than it treats the rest of the country: 84.1% on time against 70.0% elsewhere, 14.1 points ahead.

Southwest Airlines does better out of HNL than anywhere else it flies: 91.4% on time here, 78.1% on its other departures, 13.3 points apart.

Taxi-out at HNL averages 16.4 minutes, 2.3 minutes less than the 18.7 minutes elsewhere.

HNL against the other airports

July 2023 – July 2026

Where HNL differs most from the other covered airports, with the flights behind each figure
Measure	HNL	Elsewhere	Gap	Flights behind it
Hour: 8 PM departures	88.3%	68.4%	+19.9 pts	8,244 here, 873,665 elsewhere
Month: July	84.1%	70.0%	+14.1 pts	20,989 here, 1,965,494 elsewhere
Airline: Southwest Airlines	91.4%	78.1%	+13.3 pts	41,856 here, 4,282,443 elsewhere
Taxi-out: Departures	16.4 min	18.7 min	−2.3 min	184,742 here, 17,445,367 elsewhere

"Elsewhere" is every other covered airport together, taken from the same aggregates as this page with HNL’s own flights removed (for airlines, that airline’s flights from all its other airports). Hours, months and airlines appear only where both sides have at least 120 completed flights (airlines 500) and the gap is at least 2 points and 2 standard errors; only the largest gap in each direction is shown. The taxi figure is weighted by departures and has no error estimate, so it appears from 2 minutes.

Best time to fly from HNL

On-time arrival rate by scheduled local departure time: each weekday and hour, and averaged over the week.

Flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 93.1% of the time, against 79.1% for 12–3 PM departures — a gap of 14.0 percentage points.

By day and hour

On-time arrival rate for each weekday and scheduled departure hour, in local time.

Thursday 5–6 AM was the most reliable slot at HNL (97.2% on time, 502 flights) and Friday 3–4 PM the least (73.3%, 2,047 flights).

Hour of departure matters more than day of the week: hourly averages sit a typical 5.6 points from the airport-wide rate, weekday averages 1.6 points.

On-time arrival rate at HNL by weekday and scheduled departure hour, local time. Each button reads out one slot.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
5 AM–6 AM
6 AM–7 AM
7 AM–8 AM
8 AM–9 AM
9 AM–10 AM
10 AM–11 AM
11 AM–12 PM
12 PM–1 PM
1 PM–2 PM
2 PM–3 PM
3 PM–4 PM
4 PM–5 PM
5 PM–6 PM
6 PM–7 PM
7 PM–8 PM
8 PM–9 PM
9 PM–10 PM
10 PM–11 PM
11 PM–12 AM

On-time rate, % · stronger color, fewer on time

72–75
76–79
80–83
84–87
88–91
92–95
96–99

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

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · 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 5 AM (16 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 at HNL. A dash means fewer than 120 flights, which are not scored.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
5 AM–6 AM	94.7% on time497 flights	94.9% on time517 flights	97.3% on time491 flights	97.2% on time502 flights	95.6% on time507 flights	46 flights, too few to score	40 flights, too few to score
6 AM–7 AM	95.0% on time1,317 flights	96.1% on time1,294 flights	95.2% on time1,294 flights	96.4% on time1,296 flights	95.7% on time1,310 flights	96.5% on time1,265 flights	96.9% on time1,058 flights
7 AM–8 AM	90.9% on time1,530 flights	91.9% on time1,415 flights	91.9% on time1,384 flights	92.0% on time1,536 flights	90.4% on time1,567 flights	92.0% on time1,493 flights	92.0% on time1,272 flights
8 AM–9 AM	92.1% on time1,951 flights	92.1% on time1,889 flights	92.4% on time1,892 flights	90.9% on time1,915 flights	90.8% on time1,974 flights	93.0% on time1,902 flights	92.4% on time1,977 flights
9 AM–10 AM	93.6% on time1,272 flights	95.3% on time1,160 flights	93.5% on time1,160 flights	92.0% on time1,274 flights	90.9% on time1,289 flights	93.3% on time1,267 flights	95.4% on time1,262 flights
10 AM–11 AM	90.3% on time1,069 flights	89.2% on time1,074 flights	89.7% on time1,023 flights	87.9% on time1,135 flights	86.4% on time1,078 flights	90.3% on time1,082 flights	92.7% on time1,121 flights
11 AM–12 PM	87.0% on time1,535 flights	88.7% on time1,485 flights	86.1% on time1,467 flights	84.7% on time1,542 flights	83.6% on time1,530 flights	87.2% on time1,549 flights	88.6% on time1,550 flights
12 PM–1 PM	82.1% on time2,154 flights	83.3% on time2,171 flights	79.9% on time2,148 flights	79.4% on time2,165 flights	77.1% on time2,158 flights	80.0% on time2,156 flights	82.6% on time2,157 flights
1 PM–2 PM	78.4% on time2,413 flights	79.5% on time2,384 flights	80.2% on time2,370 flights	77.1% on time2,446 flights	73.9% on time2,425 flights	77.8% on time2,444 flights	78.5% on time2,441 flights
2 PM–3 PM	77.5% on time1,982 flights	82.5% on time1,814 flights	80.9% on time1,892 flights	76.2% on time1,918 flights	75.1% on time1,969 flights	80.5% on time1,934 flights	80.3% on time1,989 flights
3 PM–4 PM	77.6% on time2,025 flights	81.8% on time1,932 flights	81.0% on time2,003 flights	77.2% on time1,986 flights	73.3% on time2,047 flights	78.6% on time2,085 flights	78.7% on time2,066 flights
4 PM–5 PM	78.6% on time1,638 flights	84.0% on time1,418 flights	85.8% on time1,400 flights	81.3% on time1,617 flights	75.8% on time1,517 flights	82.6% on time1,459 flights	81.9% on time1,506 flights
5 PM–6 PM	86.4% on time1,602 flights	90.3% on time1,549 flights	90.4% on time1,546 flights	86.3% on time1,620 flights	81.1% on time1,662 flights	88.5% on time1,609 flights	86.2% on time1,663 flights
6 PM–7 PM	85.0% on time998 flights	88.1% on time930 flights	88.2% on time932 flights	84.1% on time1,049 flights	80.0% on time1,096 flights	88.3% on time1,102 flights	85.9% on time1,153 flights
7 PM–8 PM	85.3% on time1,202 flights	88.5% on time1,119 flights	88.4% on time1,098 flights	84.4% on time1,209 flights	80.6% on time1,297 flights	88.8% on time1,178 flights	83.7% on time1,306 flights
8 PM–9 PM	88.9% on time1,200 flights	90.2% on time1,134 flights	91.8% on time1,132 flights	88.8% on time1,195 flights	82.8% on time1,216 flights	88.8% on time1,205 flights	87.4% on time1,217 flights
9 PM–10 PM	85.4% on time1,150 flights	86.9% on time1,114 flights	88.0% on time1,120 flights	85.0% on time1,154 flights	84.0% on time1,176 flights	84.9% on time1,177 flights	85.0% on time1,183 flights
10 PM–11 PM	86.3% on time847 flights	88.2% on time819 flights	88.8% on time841 flights	86.0% on time856 flights	85.3% on time870 flights	85.7% on time907 flights	82.8% on time872 flights
11 PM–12 AM	79.2% on time650 flights	82.4% on time617 flights	83.1% on time651 flights	80.4% on time690 flights	80.0% on time704 flights	81.1% on time696 flights	77.7% on time687 flights

By departure window

All days combined

5–9 AM93.1%

9 AM–12 PM89.6%

12–3 PM79.1%

3–6 PM81.9%

6–9 PM86.5%

9 PM–5 AM84.5%

By departure hour

All days combined

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Buckets with fewer than 120 flights are not scored.

International arrivals

How long passport control normally takes here, hour by hour and hall by hall. This is the arrivals queue, not departure security — and it is history, not a live wait.

A US passport clears Main Overseas Terminal, HNL’s busiest hall, in a typical 8 min; everyone else in the same terminal typically takes 17 min, and 35 min on a busy day. These are separate halls, separately staffed — CBP’s single combined figure of 15 min is a number few arrivals actually experience.

Terminal by terminal, across the day

Terminal by terminal, across the day
Terminal	US passports	US busy day	Other passports	Other busy day	Global Entry
Main Overseas Terminal	8 min	17 min	17 min	35 min	5.0% of arrivals

US passports — Main Overseas Terminal

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

US citizens and lawful permanent residents, who use the US-passport lanes.

All other passports — Main Overseas Terminal

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

Every other arriving passenger, including visa and visa-waiver travelers.

Hour by hour — Main Overseas Terminal

Hour by hour — Main Overseas Terminal
Cleared in hour	US passports	US busy day	Other passports	Other busy day	Booths open
2 AM–3 AM	3 min	7 min	14 min	22 min	5
3 AM–4 AM	4 min	8 min	16 min	26 min	6
5 AM–6 AM	6 min	14 min	10 min	23 min	12
6 AM–7 AM	6 min	16 min	11 min	23 min	14
7 AM–8 AM	7 min	16 min	16 min	27 min	21
8 AM–9 AM	8 min	14 min	19 min	33 min	27
9 AM–10 AM	10 min	18 min	23 min	50 min	30
10 AM–11 AM	11 min	20 min	27 min	45 min	29
11 AM–12 PM	10 min	21 min	16 min	35 min	25
12 PM–1 PM	8 min	22 min	13 min	26 min	20
9 PM–10 PM	7 min	18 min	13 min	22 min	4

US passports: clearing in the 10 AM–11 AM hour typically takes 11 min, against 3 min in the 2 AM–3 AM hour — 8 min between the slowest and fastest of 11 measured hours.

All other passports: clearing in the 10 AM–11 AM hour typically takes 27 min, against 10 min in the 5 AM–6 AM hour — 17 min between the slowest and fastest of 11 measured hours.

The hour is when CBP processed the passenger, not when the aircraft landed — allow for the walk from the gate. Hours with fewer than 120 days of records are not listed rather than shown as an estimate, which is why a terminal’s quietest hours are usually absent. “Busy day” is the 90th percentile: one arrival in ten is worse than that. Booths are how many CBP had open, and they follow the queue rather than prevent it — the busiest hours are staffed hardest and are still the slowest.

Source: US Customs and Border Protection · 2024-08-28 to 2026-10-16 · These are CBP passport control waits for arriving international passengers — a different queue from TSA departure screening. CBP publishes them about two days in arrears, so every figure here describes what has been typical over 2024-08-28 to 2026-10-16, and none of it is a live queue or a forecast for your flight. US and non-US passengers are reported separately by CBP and are kept separate here, because they are separate halls. FlyerIntel publishes a terminal or an hour only where CBP filed at least 120 hourly records for it, and an hour-by-hour breakdown only where at least 6 hours clear that floor.

What to expect at HNL

How busy the airport is through the day, from scheduled departure volume.

Departures a day

165

Average across the analysis period

Busiest hour

1 PM

About 15 departures

Typical taxi-out

16.4 min

Pushback to wheels-up, on departure

Typical taxi-in

8.3 min

Touchdown to gate, on arrival

Scheduled departures by hour

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

The busiest hour is 1 PM, with about 15 departures a day, against roughly 6 at 6 PM.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Taxi-out runs from gate to wheels-up, averaged over departures and weighted by hour. Taxi-in runs from touchdown to gate.

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

Mon85.1%

Tue87.3%

Wed86.9%

Thu84.5%

Fri82.1%

Sat85.9%

Sun85.5%

Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Friday the least, a gap of 5.2 percentage points.

By month

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

January is historically the weakest month and September the strongest, a spread of 8.6 percentage points.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

Airlines at HNL

Departure performance by operating carrier. Regional flights are reported by the carrier that operated them, not by the mainline brand.

Airlines at HNL
Carrier	Departures	On time	Cancelled	Median delay
Hawaiian Airlines HA	80,764	84.3%	0.95%	0 min
Southwest Airlines WN	42,077	91.4%	0.45%	-8 min
Alaska Airlines AS	28,921	77.2%	1.50%	1 min
United Airlines UA	15,658	86.5%	0.94%	-10 min
Delta Air Lines DL	11,490	87.5%	0.97%	-11 min
American Airlines AA	7,390	87.1%	0.38%	-12 min

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Carriers with fewer than 500 departures are not listed.

Routes from HNL

Ranked by FlyerIntel Route Reliability Score.

Most reliable

LAXLos Angeles77

Least reliable

LAXLos Angeles77

Busiest routes

Busiest routes from HNL
Destination	Flights	On time	Score
HNL → LAX Los Angeles	17,040	83.4%	77

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Only routes with at least 10,000 flights are ranked.

See all 2 routes to and from HNL →

Reliability over time

On-time arrival rate for departures, by month.

24

25

26

Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), departures from HNL arrived on time 82.8% of the time, against 87.4% in the 12 months before — declining by 4.6 percentage points.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

Data and sources

Historical statistics

Every historical figure on this page is calculated by FlyerIntel from US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics on-time performance records covering July 2023 – July 2026, comprising 186,300 departures from HNL. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule.

Full methodology · All data sources

Analysis last recomputed September 26, 2026

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Live conditions

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Latest observation for HNL: METAR PHNL 180753Z 06014KT 10SM FEW021 26/20 A3006 RMK AO2 SLP178 T02560200 $ (issued 07:53 UTC).