Honolulu International primary runway closure has been the cause of flight delays, and what's bad to worse? Management doesn't give a damn, they don't use the airport like travelers do. They use it for the office desk. HNL continues to be ranked the worst of airports in the U.S.

Runway 8L, the airport’s primary runway, at Honolulu has been closed for construction since early October. Snowballing delays throughout the day, especially the short-duration, rapid-turn, interisland flights is the result. It it definitely will continue well into 2023.

Runway repair is an enormous project, and there is no projected completion date when the runway will reopen. 

The 8L runway closure is huge for both Hawaiian Airlines and for HNL airport and the other carriers. More than 50% of the airport’s total runway capacity was lost by the outage, because of how the terminal-adjacent runways including 8L are used in tandem.

Pushing back all interisland flights by 10 minutes might greatly reduce the backup. Mainland flights, which have a much longer turnaround time, are less adversely impacted

The runway closure has led to longer gate-to-gate times for our neighbor island flights, especially early in the day. These early delays have tended to cascade through the rest of the day.

The food situation at HNL is dismal at best, which helped rank the airport at the very bottom of airports in the U.S. there are virtually no food options nearby, and those you can walk to in the next terminal over are awful, and even then, those concessions mostly all shut down by 5 pm.

https://beatofhawaii.com/massive-honolulu-airport-closure-to-wreak-havoc-into-2023/