Carrier route record
HAOGG→KOA
Hawaiian Airlines · Kahului to Kailua-Kona
- 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 OGG to KOA lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 35 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 552 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 365 at 86.0% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, Hawaiian's OGG to KOA record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 46 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 551 completed flights
Avg delay
36 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.18%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
80.3%
Every carrier on OGG to KOA, 1,460 flights
These figures cover 552 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 OGG to KOA
Hawaiian flew 552 of the 1,460 flights on OGG to KOA, about 38% of it. Its 82.2% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 86.0% to Alaska at 74.5%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 86.0% of the time; Alaska Airlines manages 74.5%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 365 | 86.0% | 42 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Hawaiian Airlines (this page) | 552 | 82.2% | 36 min | 0.18% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines | 543 | 74.5% | 45 min | 0.18% | C+ |
Southwest leads Alaska by 12 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–11am—
- 11am–2pm274 flights86.4%
- 2pm–5pm278 flights78.1%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 86.4% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 78.1%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 278 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Hawaiian on OGG to KOA through the year
- Jul–Sep 2025276 flights84.8%
- Oct–Dec 2025276 flights79.6%
Scale runs 70% to 90%. 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 82.2% on time across 552 flights.
Split by quarter, Hawaiian on OGG to KOA 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 82.2% annual figure is the one to use.
Across the week, Sunday is the strongest day at 89.7% on time and Friday the weakest at 75.6%. 14 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 65% of the 3,522 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.
- 65%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 2%National Airspace System
65% 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 3,522 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 65 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 3,522 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.18%, 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 2.2% 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 90.0% on time across 552 flights, 8 points above 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 OGG to KOA
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 82.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 551 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.