Honolulu International (HNL) on-time performance, September 2026
7,064 scheduled airline departures from Honolulu in September 2026, 81.7% of them on time. Measured from FAA departure data, updated every morning.
On time, day by day
Share of departures within 15 minutes of schedule, by day. Light bars show each day's departures for context. Worst day: Tuesday 15 September at 71.1%. Best: Sunday 27 September at 92.5%.
Airlines at HNL, ranked by on-time share
Scheduled airlines with at least 30 departures from HNL in the month. Regional partners (SkyWest, Republic, Envoy and the like) appear under their own names; fractional and charter operators are in the totals but not listed.
| Airline | Departures | On time | 45+ min late | Avg delay (min) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Express FDX | 149 | 100.0% | 0.0% | -15.1 |
| Southwest Airlines SWA | 984 | 92.8% | 2.4% | 0.7 |
| FDY FDY | 847 | 92.8% | 1.7% | -5.2 |
| Transportes Aereos I.R. Crusoe ROU | 30 | 90.0% | 6.7% | 6.0 |
| Japan Airlines Domestic JAL | 130 | 88.5% | 1.5% | 5.9 |
| Korean Air KAL | 51 | 88.2% | 3.9% | 4.7 |
| Delta Air Lines DAL | 331 | 85.2% | 5.4% | 10.6 |
| Singapore Airlines SIA | 37 | 83.8% | 2.7% | 6.4 |
| United Airlines UAL | 357 | 80.7% | 5.9% | 11.0 |
| All Nippon Airways ANA | 74 | 79.7% | 10.8% | 13.3 |
| American Airlines AAL | 165 | 79.4% | 7.3% | 11.4 |
| Alaska Airlines ASA | 2,872 | 78.3% | 6.2% | 9.9 |
| United Parcel Service UPS | 143 | 74.1% | 16.8% | 16.3 |
| Corporate Air CPT | 260 | 73.5% | 7.7% | 2.7 |
| Aloha Airlines AAH | 326 | 72.7% | 13.8% | -4.3 |
| Kalitta Air CKS | 44 | 70.5% | 15.9% | 14.4 |
| Qantas QFA | 38 | 52.6% | 26.3% | 33.3 |
| Air Transport International ATN | 77 | 49.4% | 16.9% | 20.5 |
| Asia Pacific Airlines MGE | 31 | 32.3% | 22.6% | 35.7 |
Destinations with the longest delays
Routes from HNL with at least 20 departures, by average departure delay.
| To | Flights | On time | Avg delay |
|---|---|---|---|
| SYD Sydney | 91 | 53.8% | 29.2 |
| GUM Agana | 62 | 61.3% | 28.1 |
| SMF Sacramento | 67 | 65.7% | 26.1 |
| PDX Portland | 72 | 59.7% | 25.2 |
| SEA Seattle | 224 | 69.2% | 22.1 |
| SLC Salt Lake City | 60 | 73.3% | 21.3 |
| ONT Ontario | 131 | 69.5% | 19.5 |
| SJC San Jose | 60 | 70.0% | 17.1 |
| SFO San Francisco | 162 | 72.8% | 17.0 |
| HKG Hong Kong | 35 | 71.4% | 15.8 |
Busiest destinations
The ten routes with the most departures from HNL this month.
| To | Flights | On time | Avg delay |
|---|---|---|---|
| OGG Kahului | 951 | 86.8% | 1.7 |
| LIH Lihue | 815 | 83.8% | 3.0 |
| KOA Kona | 773 | 82.0% | 2.9 |
| MKK Molokai | 670 | 90.3% | -3.7 |
| ITO Hilo | 610 | 89.5% | -1.0 |
| LAX Los Angeles | 448 | 78.8% | 9.8 |
| LNY Lanai | 228 | 93.0% | -6.9 |
| SEA Seattle | 224 | 69.2% | 22.1 |
| HND Tokyo | 179 | 82.1% | 8.7 |
| SFO San Francisco | 162 | 72.8% | 17.0 |
Other months for HNL
Airline pages for September 2026
How we measure
On time means the aircraft took off within 15 minutes of its scheduled departure, after subtracting the departure airport's normal taxi time at HNL (FAA SWIM reports wheels-off, not push-back, so the median taxi time of the last 30 days is taken off every flight first). Average delay is the mean of that taxi-adjusted delay over all departures; early departures count as negative minutes, so an operator that routinely leaves early can show a negative average. 45+ min late is the share of departures that left 45 minutes or more behind schedule, the point at which most connections are at risk.
Scope: scheduled airlines only, the same set as the monthly State of the Sky report (operators with published routes; private, fractional and charter operators are left out), so the two publications give the same numbers for the same month. Departures are counted by scheduled day (UTC). Each day's flights are rolled up overnight and published the next morning; the newest day keeps filling in for a day or two and is only shown once it is substantially complete. Figures can differ by a few tenths of a point from the State of the Sky report for the same month: that report is frozen on the 2nd of the following month, while these pages are rebuilt from the live rollup, which recomputes each airport's taxi baseline nightly and re-rolls the last week of the month as late departure times arrive (September 2026 at SFO: 16,398 departures in both, 69.2% on time here against 69.5% in the report).
Source: FAA System Wide Information Management (SWIM) flight plans and departure times, processed by PlaneTrack. Free to quote with credit to PlaneTrack (CC BY 4.0).