Carrier route record

HAOGG→KOA

Hawaiian Airlines · Kahului to Kailua-Kona

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 OGG to KOA lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 40 minutes on average. That rests on 366 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 365 at 87.4% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, Hawaiian's OGG to KOA record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 43 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

81.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 365 completed flights

Avg delay

40 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.27%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

79.7%

Every carrier on OGG to KOA, 1,460 flights

These figures cover 366 flights between September 2025 and August 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.

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Carrier by carrier

Hawaiian against every carrier on OGG to KOA

Hawaiian flew 366 of the 1,460 flights on OGG to KOA, about 25% of it. Its 81.6% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 79.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 87.4% to Alaska at 74.9%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 87.4% of the time; Alaska Airlines manages 74.9%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 729 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on OGG to KOA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	365	87.4%	44 min	0.27%	A+
Hawaiian Airlines (this page)	366	81.6%	40 min	0.27%	B+
Alaska Airlines	729	74.9%	47 min	0.41%	C+

The spread between Southwest and Alaska is 13 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 13 more arrivals inside the on-time window.

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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–11am—
11am–2pm200 flights84.9%
2pm–5pm166 flights77.7%
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 84.9% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 77.7%. 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 200 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Hawaiian on OGG to KOA through the year

Jul–Sep 202590 flights87.8%
Oct–Dec 2025276 flights79.6%

Scale runs 70% to 95%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 81.6% on time across 366 flights.

Split by quarter, Hawaiian on OGG to KOA 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 81.6% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 87.0% on time and Friday the weakest at 72.5%, a spread of 15 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late Hawaiian on OGG to KOA runs when it is late

Most of the lateness is short. 38 of the 67 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 11 reached an hour or more.

15+ min early10 flights2.7%
Within 15 min288 flights78.9%
15–29 min late38 flights10.4%
30–59 min late18 flights4.9%
1–2 hours late8 flights2.2%
2+ hours late3 flights0.8%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 365 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 64 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 4 made it up before arrival. Only 7 left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for Hawaiian on OGG to KOA

The latest arrival of the period was on 30 October 2025, 2 hours 41 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of Hawaiian on OGG to KOA in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
30 October 2025	2 hours 41 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
2 December 2025	2 hours 38 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
30 October 2025	2 hours 27 minutes	Carrier
22 November 2025	1 hour 55 minutes	Carrier
19 December 2025	1 hour 44 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why Hawaiian runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 2,684 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
60%
Carrier
38%
National Airspace System
2%

60% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,684 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 60 to one. The split is drawn from 2,684 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 38%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,009 of the 2,684 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, 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 3.0% 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 91.5% on time across 366 flights, 10 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 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 OGG to KOA

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 81.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 365 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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