Daniel K. Inouye International Airport

HNL: regional context and official resources

Honolulu's HNL, ICAO PHNL, is Daniel K. Inouye International Airport on Oahu. Older reference catalogs may call it Honolulu International Airport; those names refer to the same airport, not two different destinations. Hawaii's official airport website documents the current name and provides its terminal map.

When exploring the Hawaii flight map, distinguish an aircraft's observed position from its destination. A marker offshore or near Oahu does not prove an HNL arrival. Zooming out helps compare the island setting with available observations, but gaps over water and missing airport-pair metadata can leave flights absent from this profile even while they are operating.

Use the state airport website for terminal, transportation and island-travel information, including its agricultural inspection guidance. PocketWorld does not determine inspection requirements, connections or baggage procedures from telemetry. An airline's published itinerary and current airport notices remain the appropriate sources for an inter-island connection or an onward trip from Honolulu.

Editorial sources and data boundaries

• Hawaii DOT: Daniel K. Inouye airport

The airport codes, coordinates, elevation and timezone below come from the local airport reference catalog. They are not a current operating bulletin. This editorial context and its source references were reviewed on 2026-10-12; that date is not the timestamp of any aircraft position. Explore the United States flight observations for a wider view with separate observation times and coverage limits.

Using the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport airport profile

Daniel K. Inouye International Airport serves Honolulu, US, at reference coordinates 21.3187, -157.9220. Its canonical aviation identifier on PocketWorld is ICAO code PHNL| IATA: HNL. The listed elevation and timezone come from the airport reference catalog and help place the airfield on the globe; they are not a substitute for an aeronautical information publication or a current airport notice.

Geographically, Daniel K. Inouye International Airport is recorded in Honolulu, Hawaii, US, north of the equator and west of Greenwich. At 13 feet in the reference catalog, it is grouped here as a low-elevation airport; its timezone identifier is Pacific/Honolulu. These stable attributes help distinguish the airport from places with similar names or shared metropolitan codes. You can also open the Honolulu city profile.

The flight section reports only aircraft found in PocketWorld's latest available public ADS-B snapshot with enough origin or destination metadata to associate them with HNL. Receiver coverage, provider availability, transponder settings and metadata quality vary by region and aircraft. A flight can therefore be operating normally without appearing here, and a callsign or airport pair can be missing, delayed or stale.

Position data is not an airline schedule

An observed aircraft position can help explain where a flight was recently seen, together with altitude, speed and route fields when those values are present. It does not by itself confirm a gate, terminal, boarding time, delay, diversion or cancellation. Arrivals and departures shown here are matches from public telemetry, not a complete airport operations board.

Use this page for geographic context and open the interactive flight map to inspect nearby traffic. Before travelling, verify schedules and operational changes with the airline or the airport. PocketWorld documents its source limits in Methodology and names the public providers on the Sources page.