Carrier route record

HAHNL→OGG

Hawaiian Airlines · Honolulu to Kahului

Flights: 3,811
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 37%
Carriers: 3

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

Hawaiian on HNL to OGG earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 35 minutes. That rests on 3,811 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 2,861 at 92.3% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, Hawaiian's HNL to OGG record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 84 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 3,786 completed flights

Avg delay

37 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.66%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

84.7%

Every carrier on HNL to OGG, 10,176 flights

These figures cover 3,811 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

Hawaiian against every carrier on HNL to OGG

Hawaiian flew 3,811 of the 10,176 flights on HNL to OGG, about 37% of it. Its 86.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 84.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two 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; Alaska Airlines manages 76.9%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 3,504 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 (this page)	3,811	86.0%	37 min	0.66%	A+
Alaska Airlines	3,504	76.9%	40 min	1.60%	B

The spread between Southwest and Alaska is 15 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 15 more arrivals inside the on-time window.

Departure window

When Hawaiian runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 14 points, against 15 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am591 flights93.8%
8am–11am519 flights92.8%
11am–2pm791 flights84.1%
2pm–5pm1,022 flights79.7%
5pm–8pm710 flights86.3%
8pm–5am178 flights83.6%

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 93.8% of the time, against 79.7% for the afternoon window. That is 14 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 1,022 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Hawaiian on HNL to OGG through the year

Jul–Sep 20251,941 flights88.7%
Oct–Dec 20251,870 flights83.3%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. 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 86.0% on time across 3,811 flights.

Split by quarter, Hawaiian on HNL to OGG logged 1,941 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 1,870 flights in Oct–Dec 2025. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 86.0% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 90.1% on time and Thursday the weakest at 80.8%. 9 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Hawaiian runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 66% of the 19,000 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
66%
Late-arriving aircraft
32%
Extreme weather
1%
National Airspace System
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 66%, 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 13,000 of the 19,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 19,371 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 93.8% on time here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.66%, below the national 1.81% 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.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.7% 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 85.8% on time across 3,810 flights, within half 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 3,811 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 Hawaiian 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 15 points, which is the most any booking decision can do. 3,786 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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