Carrier performance at one airport
HA→OGG
Hawaiian Airlines at Kahului Airport
- Departures
- 7,620
- Period
- June 2025 to May 2026
- Routes
- 12
- Rank here
- #5 of 6
Hawaiian Airlines at Kahului lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.4%. About one flight in six arrive 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 45 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 7,620 flights, of which Southwest Airlines flew 5,011 at 92.4% on time.
Measured against the airport rather than the country, Hawaiian Airlines runs half a point behind the 83.1% weighted average across all carriers at OGG. That is the comparison worth making: every operator here works the same runways, the same airspace and the same weather.
Key figures
On time
82.5%
7,570 completed departures
Avg delay
43 min
Across delayed flights only
Cancelled
0.62%
At OGG, this carrier only
Rank here
#5
Of 6 carriers clearing the floor at OGG
These figures cover 7,620 flights between June 2025 and May 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.
Against the competition
Every carrier at OGG, ranked
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 92.4% of the time; Alaska Airlines manages 74.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 7,848 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 5,011 | 92.4% | 50 min | 0.48% | A+ |
| United Airlines | 2,334 | 91.0% | 73 min | 0.94% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines | 1,241 | 87.9% | 69 min | 2.98% | A |
| American Airlines | 1,489 | 84.1% | 166 min | 1.01% | B |
| Hawaiian Airlines (this page) | 7,620 | 82.5% | 43 min | 0.62% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines | 7,848 | 74.4% | 48 min | 1.36% | C |
The spread between Southwest and Alaska is 18 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 18 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
Route by route
Where Hawaiian Airlines flies from OGG
Hawaiian Airlines operates 12 routes out of OGG with enough volume to report. Route records inside one carrier at one airport still spread widely, because a short shuttle and a transcontinental have very different exposure to a late inbound.
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OGG to HNL · Honolulu | 4,446 | 85.8% | 39 min | 0.83% | A+ |
| OGG to LIH · Lihue | 642 | 77.7% | 39 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| OGG to KOA · Kailua-Kona | 642 | 82.7% | 37 min | 0.16% | B+ |
| OGG to SJC · San Josethin sample | 215 | 76.6% | 65 min | 0.47% | B+ |
| OGG to LAS · Las Vegasthin sample | 214 | 77.9% | 41 min | 0.47% | B+ |
| OGG to SMF · Sacramentothin sample | 214 | 77.5% | 52 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| OGG to LGB · Long Beachthin sample | 214 | 87.8% | 29 min | 0.47% | A+ |
| OGG to SEA · Seattlethin sample | 214 | 59.6% | 41 min | 0.47% | D+ |
| OGG to LAX · Los Angelesthin sample | 214 | 56.8% | 54 min | 0.47% | D+ |
| OGG to SFO · San Franciscothin sample | 214 | 89.2% | 44 min | 0.47% | A+ |
| OGG to OAK · Oaklandthin sample | 185 | 77.5% | 86 min | 1.62% | B |
| OGG to ITO · Hilothin sample | 184 | 83.6% | 40 min | 0.00% | B+ |
Departure window
Best time of day for this operation
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 18 points, against 18 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am575 flights94.8%
- 8am–11am1,426 flights88.8%
- 11am–2pm2,603 flights80.4%
- 2pm–5pm1,794 flights77.0%
- 5pm–8pm931 flights81.9%
- 8pm–5am291 flights80.7%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 94.8% of the time, against 77.0% for the afternoon window. That is 18 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on.
Across the year
Seasonal pattern
December is the weak month at 69.8% on time, against 89.9% in September. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days.
Delay causes
What holds this operation up
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 44%Carrier
- 3%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
51% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 57,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 28 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit.
Cancellations are rare at 0.62%, below the national 1.80% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.2% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The sample behind these figures is 7,620 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. September runs 89.9% on time and December 69.8%, a swing of 20 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of December before you think about anything else.
Common questions
Hawaiian Airlines at OGG
How often is Hawaiian Airlines at OGG delayed?
About one flight in six arrive at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 17.5% of the 7,620 flights in this analysis, against 22.6% nationally. Delayed flights are late by roughly 45 minutes on average.
Which airline is most reliable on Hawaiian Airlines at OGG?
Southwest Airlines leads at 92.4% on time across 5,011 flights. Alaska Airlines is at the other end on 74.4%, a gap of 18 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on Hawaiian Airlines at OGG?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 94.8% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 77.0%, 18 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are December delays on Hawaiian Airlines at OGG?
December is the weakest month at 69.8% on time, compared with 89.9% in September. Across the year that is 20 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, June 2025 to May 2026. Updated monthly. How this data is collected.