Is Hawaiian Airlines reliable?

Ranked 16 of 86 US airlines on on-time record.

40,187 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics

81.45%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

0.73%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

55 min

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

96.07%

Delays it caused itself

Rest was weather, ATC or security

Reading Hawaiian Airlines’ record

Most of Hawaiian Airlines’ delay was its own doing. Around 96% of the minutes it lost came from crew, maintenance and aircraft arriving late from earlier legs — causes inside the airline — rather than weather or air traffic control. That is the part a change of management can change, and the part that does not improve on its own.

The extremes are far apart. On LGB to OGG it arrived on time 96.7% of the time; on ANC to SEA the figure was 27.87%. Same airline, same fleet, same procedures — which is the clearest argument on this site for checking the route rather than the carrier.

Hawaiian Airlines sits in the top fifth of the 86 airlines measured.

Hawaiian Airlines’ record swings sharply from route to route — roughly 12 points either side of its own average. An overall figure hiding that much variation is not much use on its own: the route you are flying matters more than the airline's headline number, and this is a carrier whose average is being held up by some routes and dragged down by others.

Arrives on time 81.45%

Rarely cancels 0.73% cancelled

Short delays when late 55 min when late

Few self-inflicted delays 96.07% its own fault

Same wherever it flies ±12 pts across routes

Each axis is a percentile against the other US airlines in the same period, not an absolute score. Further out is better than most; nearer the centre is worse than most.

Hawaiian Airlines in five measures

An airline's headline on-time rate hides more than it shows. Two carriers can both arrive on time 75% of the time while one is late by twelve minutes and the other by an hour, or while one is evenly mediocre everywhere and the other is excellent on most routes and dreadful on a few.

These five axes pull those apart. Each is scored against the other US airlines in the same period rather than on an absolute scale, because on-time rates cluster tightly enough that raw numbers would draw every carrier as the same shape.

Same everywhere is the one worth reading twice: it measures how far Hawaiian Airlines’ on-time rate moves from route to route. A carrier scoring low there has an average propped up by routes you may not be flying.

Hawaiian Airlines month by month

Jul 2025 peak 88 Dec 2025

On-time arrival rate, %

Its most reliable routes

Its worst routes

How Hawaiian Airlines compares

Air Malta 88 1.3%

China Eastern Airlines 87 1.3%

Air China 85 1.3%

Gol Linhas Aéreas 87 1.3%

Air Europa 84 1.3%

SAS 86 1.3%

Azul Linhas Aéreas 87 1.3%

Gulf Air 84 1.3%

Japan Airlines 84 1.3%

Copa Airlines 84 1.3%

Kuwait Airways 83 1.3%

Norwegian 82 1.3%

Wizz Air 81 1.2%

Austrian Airlines 83 1.3%

Icelandair 83 1.3%

Hawaiian Airlines 81 1.2%

Wizz Air Malta 80 1.2%

Turkish Airlines 81 1.2%

Vueling 79 1.2%

Delta Air Lines 82 1.2%

Emirates 79 1.2%

Royal Jordanian 81 1.2%

Etihad Airways 80 1.2%

BA CityFlyer 80 1.2%

airBaltic 77 1.2%

United Airlines 79 1.2%

Emerald Airlines UK 80 1.2%

Virgin Australia 80 1.2%

TAP Air Portugal 79 1.2%

Alaska Airlines 79 1.2%

KLM Cityhopper 76 1.2%

Loganair 81 1.2%

LATAM Brasil 79 1.2%

Eurowings 79 1.2%

Qantas 81 1.2%

British Airways 80 1.2%

Envoy Air 80 1.2%

Wizz Air UK 77 1.2%

Virgin Atlantic 80 1.2%

SkyWest Airlines 79 1.2%

Lufthansa 79 1.2%

Southwest Airlines 77 1.2%

Thai Airways 76 1.2%

Qatar Airways 80 1.2%

easyJet 75 1.1%

Aer Lingus 78 1.2%

LOT Polish Airlines 75 1.1%

Allegiant Air 74 1.1%

Jetstar 76 1.2%

Air Canada 76 1.2%

QantasLink 79 1.2%

Ryanair 72 1.1%

Rex Airlines 77 1.2%

Air France 74 1.1%

Ryanair UK 72 1.1%

Aegean Airlines 73 1.1%

Republic Airways 78 1.2%

Air Transat 71 1.1%

American Airlines 74 1.1%

Frontier Airlines 73 1.1%

Virgin Australia Regional Airlines 73 1.1%

Corendon Airlines 70 1.1%

SKY Airline 74 1.1%

Jet2 69 1.0%

Singapore Airlines 71 1.1%

BA Euroflyer 68 1.0%

KLM 73 1.1%

JetBlue Airways 73 1.1%

SunExpress 70 1.1%

PSA Airlines 75 1.1%

easyJet Switzerland 73 1.1%

Spirit Airlines 73 1.1%

LATAM Airlines 66 1.0%

easyJet Europe 73 1.1%

El Al 69 1.1%

Brussels Airlines 71 1.1%

Swiss International Air Lines 67 1.0%

Iberia 79 1.2%

Aurigny 72 1.1%

TUI Airways 59 0.9%

Finnair 71 1.1%

Royal Air Maroc 56 0.8%

Air India 59 0.9%

Aerolíneas Argentinas 61 0.9%

Blue Islands 62 0.9%

Ethiopian Airlines 71 1.1%

Common questions

Is Hawaiian Airlines reliable?

Hawaiian Airlines arrived on time 81.45% of the time across 40,187 flights, ranking 16 of 86 airlines measured. That is a good record by the standards of this data.

How often does Hawaiian Airlines cancel flights?

0.73% of its scheduled flights were cancelled. Cancellation matters more than delay for a traveller: it is the outcome that costs a day, and the one that triggers a refund entitlement.

When Hawaiian Airlines is late, how late is it?

About 55 minutes on average across its delayed arrivals.

Are Hawaiian Airlines delays the airline's own fault?

96.07% of the delay minutes it reported came from causes inside the airline — crew, maintenance, and aircraft arriving late from earlier legs — rather than weather or air traffic control.

Is Hawaiian Airlines equally punctual on every route?

No. Its on-time rate moves about 12 points either side of its own average depending on the route, so the route you are flying matters more than Hawaiian Airlines’ headline figure.

Figures cover January 2025 – August 2026 and are counted from the regulators' own published files. A grade describes the past and is not a prediction about a particular flight, nor a safety rating. How the grade is calculated →