Carrier route record
HAKOA→OGG
Hawaiian Airlines · Kailua-Kona to Kahului
- Flights
- 366
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 25%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Hawaiian Airlines.
Hawaiian on KOA to OGG earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 14 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 45 minutes. That rests on 366 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 365 at 91.8% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, Hawaiian's KOA to OGG record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 142 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 364 completed flights
Avg delay
46 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.55%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
86.9%
Every carrier on KOA to OGG, 1,460 flights
These figures cover 366 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 3 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
Hawaiian against every carrier on KOA to OGG
Hawaiian flew 366 of the 1,460 flights on KOA to OGG, about 25% of it. Its 91.5% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 86.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 91.8% to Alaska at 82.2%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 91.8% of the time; Alaska Airlines manages 82.2%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 729 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 365 | 91.8% | 66 min | 0.27% | A+ |
| Hawaiian Airlines (this page) | 366 | 91.5% | 46 min | 0.55% | A+ |
| Alaska Airlines | 729 | 82.2% | 38 min | 0.41% | B+ |
Southwest leads Alaska by 10 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.
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Departure window
When Hawaiian runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 366 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am162 flights94.4%
- 11am–2pm190 flights90.5%
- 2pm–5pm14 flights—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8am–11am window is the strongest at 94.4% on time. The full set of windows spans 4 points.
Across the year
Hawaiian on KOA to OGG through the year
- Jul–Sep 202590 flights95.6%
- Oct–Dec 2025276 flights90.1%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 91.5% on time across 366 flights.
Split by quarter, Hawaiian on KOA to OGG logged 90 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 276 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 91.5% annual figure is the one to use.
Across the week, Sunday is the strongest day at 98.0% on time and Saturday the weakest at 86.3%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Hawaiian on KOA to OGG runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 16 of the 31 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 7 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early1 flights0.3%
- Within 15 min332 flights91.2%
- 15–29 min late16 flights4.4%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.2%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.1%
- 2+ hours late3 flights0.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 364 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
3 of 25 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 12% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Hawaiian on KOA to OGG
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 October 2025, 2 hours 42 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in December 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 October 2025 | 2 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 December 2025 | 2 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 December 2025 | 2 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 December 2025 | 1 hour 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 September 2025 | 1 hour 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Hawaiian runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 59% of the 1,410 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%Late-arriving aircraft
- 41%Carrier
59% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 1,410 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 59 to one. The split is drawn from 1,410 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 41%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 573 of the 1,410 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, below the national 1.89% 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 1.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 84 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 81.6% on time across 366 flights, 10 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 10 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 366 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking Hawaiian on KOA to OGG
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 366 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 91.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 364 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- KOA to OGG, every carrier
- Hawaiian on OGG to KOA, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on KOA to OGG91.8%
- Alaska Airlines on KOA to OGG82.2%
- Hawaiian Airlines network-wide record
- Kahului Airport (OGG) delay statistics
- Hawaii inter-island flights: how reliable is island hopping?
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.