HNL Honolulu

How deep the HNL board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from HNL. This reads the same 59 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 28of the 59 destinations are flown by one airline
• 21destinations run less than once a day
• 14destinations have four or more departures a day
• 42.4%of the destinations name Alaska Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at HNL

34 airlines appear on the HNL board and they do not hold it evenly. Alaska Airlines is on 25 of the 59 destinations, 42.4 per cent of them, and on 5 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 181.1 of the 257.5 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Southwest Airlines on 14 destinations. 19 of the 34 airlines at HNL appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

That is a middling concentration at HNL: one airline on 42.4 per cent of the destinations and the other 57.6 per cent spread across 33 airlines. A cancellation inside the Alaska Airlines network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 34 destinations Alaska Airlines does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the HNL board is daily

Of the 59 destinations, 38 are flown at least once a day and 21 are not, 7 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the HNL board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: HNL to Melbourne (MEL) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 129.7 of the 257.5 departures a day, 50.4 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves HNL is aimed at those five places, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests, and a hand carry that is not going to one of them is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Apia APW	Samoa	Fiji Airways	1	4,200	plan this
Avarua RAR	Cook Islands	Alaska Airlines	1	4,733	plan this
Baltimore BWI	the United States	Omni Air International	1	7,801	plan this
Banana CXI	Kiribati	Fiji Airways	1	2,151	plan this
Fairfield SUU	the United States	ATI	1	3,916	plan this
Las Vegas HSH	the United States	JHJ	1	4,440	plan this
Melbourne MEL	Australia	Qantas	1	8,875	the pair page
Burbank BUR	the United States	Southwest Airlines	2	4,117	plan this
Calgary YYC	Canada	WestJet	2	5,028	plan this
Hong Kong HKG	Hong Kong	Atlas Air	2	8,947	plan this

The ten destinations out of HNL where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 8 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from HNL

The desk holds the return direction for 37 of the 59 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On five of them the return into HNL runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Calgary (YYC) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back, Washington (IAD) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Minneapolis (MSP) at 2.1 out a day against 1.1 back.

It runs the other way as well: Los Angeles (LAX) files 18.1 a day back into HNL against 13.2 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at HNL

HNL keeps Pacific/Honolulu time, 14 hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 19:00 at HNL, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

The night at HNL

2 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Sydney (SYD) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from HNL that lands inside it leaves around 16:39, on a modelled block of 10h 21m. Into Tokyo (NRT) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from HNL that lands inside it leaves around 20:07, on a modelled block of 7h 53m. Those two departure times out of HNL are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where HNL turns up on the rest of this site

HNL carries two other pages on this site as well: the United States country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the HNL transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 12 airport pair pages that start or end at HNL, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Honolulu to Seattle (SEA), Honolulu to Tokyo (HND) and Honolulu to San Diego (SAN).

One courier posting names HNL as the airport a courier here flies from: Honolulu.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with HNL already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 59 destinations above.