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PDX vs HNL - Airport Comparison

Select two airports to compare on-time performance, delays, cancellations, and top routes using U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) data (2020–2025) across all 50 states. See our methodology for how metrics are computed.

Airport A
PDX

Portland, OR

Portland, Oregon

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Airport B
HNL

Honolulu, HI

Honolulu, Hawaii

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Key Performance Metrics

BTS on-time performance data, 2020–2025 cumulative.

Metric PDX HNL
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 84.4% 84.6%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 66.7 min 62.1 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 15.6% 15.4%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 0.83% 0.63%
Total Flights 661,488 631,778
Delayed Flights 103,008 97,030
Cancelled Flights 5,511 4,006
Top Delay Cause Carrier Carrier

✓ / ▲ indicates the more favorable value. Data: BTS On-Time Performance, 2020–2025.

Delay Cause Breakdown

PDX - Portland, OR

Carrier 38.4%
Late Aircraft 36.9%
NAS 20.2%
Weather 4.3%
Security 0.2%

HNL - Honolulu, HI

Carrier 53.5%
Late Aircraft 37.3%
NAS 7.0%
Weather 1.6%
Security 0.5%

Top Routes

Top routes from PDX

Route Flights On-Time
PDX → SEA
Seattle
36,148 87.7%
SEA → PDX
Portland
35,578 83.7%
LAX → PDX
Portland
25,109 86.5%
PDX → LAX
Los Angeles
24,956 87.7%
PDX → DEN
Denver
23,123 84.1%
DEN → PDX
Portland
23,121 77.1%

Top routes from HNL

Route Flights On-Time
HNL → OGG
Kahului
60,102 86.7%
OGG → HNL
Honolulu
60,101 84.7%
HNL → LIH
Lihue
42,503 87.2%
LIH → HNL
Honolulu
42,502 86%
KOA → HNL
Honolulu
41,340 86.9%
HNL → KOA
Kona
41,330 87.8%

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025) On-time rates exclude cancelled and diverted flights. PlainFlights is not affiliated with BTS or the DOT

Every figure on PlainFlights is rendered directly from BTS On-Time Performance data, no number is typed in by an editor. This tool queries live on-time, delay, and cancellation figures for the two selected airports from the dataset. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.