Carrier route record
HAKOA→OGG
Hawaiian Airlines · Kailua-Kona to Kahului
- Flights
- 552
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 38%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 40 minutes. That rests on 552 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 365 at 89.9% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, Hawaiian's KOA to OGG record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 124 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 550 completed flights
Avg delay
40 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.36%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
86.8%
Every carrier on KOA to OGG, 1,460 flights
These figures cover 552 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 2 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.
Carrier by carrier
Hawaiian against every carrier on KOA to OGG
Hawaiian flew 552 of the 1,460 flights on KOA to OGG, about 38% of it. Its 90.0% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 86.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Hawaiian at 90.0% to Alaska at 81.4%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 89.9% of the time; Alaska Airlines manages 81.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 543 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaiian Airlines (this page) | 552 | 90.0% | 40 min | 0.36% | A+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 365 | 89.9% | 63 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Alaska Airlines | 543 | 81.4% | 38 min | 0.18% | B+ |
Southwest leads Alaska by 9 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.
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 552 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am224 flights95.9%
- 11am–2pm314 flights86.6%
- 2pm–5pm14 flights—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 86.6% on time against 95.9% for 8am–11am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 314 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Hawaiian on KOA to OGG through the year
- Jul–Sep 2025276 flights89.9%
- Oct–Dec 2025276 flights90.1%
Scale runs 80% 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 90.0% on time across 552 flights.
Split by quarter, Hawaiian on KOA to OGG logged 276 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 90.0% annual figure is the one to use.
Across the week, Sunday is the strongest day at 98.7% on time and Thursday the weakest at 82.9%. 16 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. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 59% of the 2,203 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.
- 59%Late-arriving aircraft
- 41%Carrier
- 0%Security
59% 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 2,203 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 59 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. The split is drawn from 2,203 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 41%, 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 899 of the 2,203 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.36%, 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 1.6% 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 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 82.2% on time across 552 flights, 8 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 8 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 552 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. 552 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 90.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 550 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.