Carrier route record

ASHNL→OGG

Alaska Airlines · Honolulu to Kahului

Flights: 3,504
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 34%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Alaska Airlines.

Alaska on HNL to OGG lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 40 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 3,504 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 2,861 at 92.3% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Alaska on HNL to OGG from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

76.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 3,444 completed flights

Avg delay

40 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.60%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

84.7%

Every carrier on HNL to OGG, 10,176 flights

These figures cover 3,504 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Carrier by carrier

Alaska against every carrier on HNL to OGG

Alaska flew 3,504 of the 10,176 flights on HNL to OGG, about 34% of it. Its 76.9% on time is 8 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 84.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 92.3% to Alaska at 76.9%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 92.3% of the time; Hawaiian Airlines manages 86.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 3,811 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on HNL to OGG
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	2,861	92.3%	47 min	0.63%	A+
Hawaiian Airlines	3,811	86.0%	37 min	0.66%	A+
Alaska Airlines (this page)	3,504	76.9%	40 min	1.60%	B

Southwest leads Hawaiian by 6 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.

Departure window

When Alaska runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 27 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am496 flights92.3%
8am–11am579 flights88.2%
11am–2pm781 flights70.8%
2pm–5pm878 flights65.8%
5pm–8pm590 flights77.3%
8pm–5am180 flights75.8%

Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 92.3% of the time, against 65.8% for the afternoon window. That is 27 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 878 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Alaska on HNL to OGG through the year

Jan–Mar 20261,829 flights74.1%
Apr–Jun 20261,675 flights79.9%

Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 76.9% on time across 3,504 flights.

Split by quarter, Alaska on HNL to OGG logged 1,829 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 1,675 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 76.9% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 82.3% on time and Friday the weakest at 67.7%. 15 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Alaska runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 54% of the 31,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
54%
Late-arriving aircraft
34%
Extreme weather
7%
National Airspace System
6%
Security
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 54%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 17,000 of the 31,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 31,439 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 92.3% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 1.60% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.11%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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.

At 101 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 75.8% on time across 3,507 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.

The sample behind these figures is 3,504 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.

What to do with this

Booking Alaska on HNL to OGG

Put together: take the 5am–8am departure, avoid the peak month if the dates are flexible, and if two carriers are within a few dollars of each other, Southwest is the one with the record behind it. None of that guarantees an on-time arrival; it moves the odds by 27 points, which is the most any booking decision can do. 3,444 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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