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Route Reliability

Detroit → Honolulu

DTWHNL · 4,475 miles · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Daniel K. Inouye International Airport

86
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
79%
Arrive within 15 minutes
10 min
Average arrival delay
0.3%
Cancelled
289
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Delta Air Lines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 79% of the time across 289 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Friday is doing you no favors.

DTW–HNL flights arrived on time 86% of the time on Tuesdays. On Fridays: 73%.

It basically never cancels.

Out of 289 scheduled flights, only 0.3% were cancelled.

Trending in the right direction.

DTW–HNL flights arrived on time 81% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 55% in the three months before that.

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon75%(44 flights)
  • Tue86%(28 flights)
  • Wed83%(35 flights)
  • Thu76%(38 flights)
  • Fri73%(52 flights)
  • Sat80%(45 flights)
  • Sun83%(46 flights)
On-time trend by month
87%
May

Jun 83% → May 87% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202583%30
July 202597%31
August 202587%31
September 2025100%16
October 202592%13
November 202571%14
December 202545%20
January 202644%23
February 202675%20
March 202679%29
April 202677%30
May 202687%31

Based on 289 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.