Flights Honolulu → Oakland
HNL → OAK
Route overview
This flight route connects Honolulu with Oakland, featuring an 80% on-time performance rate and an average delay of 11.2 minutes per flight. Over the past year, there have been 178 flights on this route using a mix of Boeing 737 and Boeing 767-300 aircraft, serving the busy Oakland International Airport, which opened in 1927 and handles over eleven million passengers annually.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Honolulu (HNL) → Oakland (OAK) route is operated by American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines. Across 272 flights monitored in recent months, 78% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 13 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.37%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 20.1/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Oakland the average ATFM delay is 1.4 minutes (main cause: airspace/NAS (BTS)). Departing from Honolulu the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Oakland: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Honolulu (HNL) to Oakland (OAK) heads north-east for about 3,873 km, a flight time of roughly 5h 16m.
Departures from Honolulu on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 99% of HNL-OAK flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Honolulu the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Oakland it is 1.4 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)).
Across 272 tracked HNL-OAK flights, 78% left on time with an average delay of 13 min and a 0.4% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaiian Airlines (HA) | 78% | 11 min | 1.5% |
| American Airlines (AA) | 74% | 16 min | 3.0% |
| Alaska Airlines (AS) | 67% | 10 min | 11.9% |
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Frequently asked questions about HNL-OAK
On the Honolulu (HNL) -> Oakland (OAK) route, on-time performance is 78% with an average delay of 13 minutes, based on 272 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Honolulu-Oakland is 0.37% across 272 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 3 airlines: American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
