Carrier route record

ASOGG→HNL

Alaska Airlines · Kahului to Honolulu

Flights: 3,507
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 OGG to HNL sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land roughly 45 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 3,507 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 2,861 at 94.1% on time.

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

On time

75.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 3,442 completed flights

Avg delay

43 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.74%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

84.7%

Every carrier on OGG to HNL, 10,178 flights

These figures cover 3,507 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 OGG to HNL

Alaska flew 3,507 of the 10,178 flights on OGG to HNL, about 34% of it. Its 75.8% on time is 9 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 94.1% to Alaska at 75.8%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 94.1% of the time; Hawaiian Airlines manages 85.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 3,810 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on OGG to HNL
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	2,861	94.1%	52 min	0.66%	A+
Hawaiian Airlines	3,810	85.8%	40 min	0.89%	A+
Alaska Airlines (this page)	3,507	75.8%	43 min	1.74%	B

Southwest leads Hawaiian by 8 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 30 points, against 8 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am423 flights88.4%
8am–11am921 flights82.9%
11am–2pm706 flights77.7%
2pm–5pm627 flights58.4%
5pm–8pm596 flights72.7%
8pm–5am234 flights71.8%

Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 88.4% of the time, against 58.4% for the afternoon window. That is 30 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 921 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Alaska on OGG to HNL through the year

Jan–Mar 20261,830 flights71.2%
Apr–Jun 20261,677 flights80.7%

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 75.8% on time across 3,507 flights.

Split by quarter, Alaska on OGG to HNL logged 1,830 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 1,677 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 75.8% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 82.9% on time and Friday the weakest at 66.7%. 16 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. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 36,000 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
54%
Carrier
32%
Extreme weather
7%
National Airspace System
6%
Security
0%

54% 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 36,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 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 36,189 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 88.4% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 1.74% 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 4.3% 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 76.9% on time across 3,504 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 3,507 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 OGG to HNL

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 30 points, which is the most any booking decision can do. 3,442 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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