Carrier route record
AAOGG→PHX
American Airlines · Kahului to Phoenix
- Flights
- 460
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 56%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on OGG to PHX 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.8 hours. That rests on 460 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, American's OGG to PHX record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 143 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 458 completed flights
Avg delay
169 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.43%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
94.3%
Every carrier on OGG to PHX, 825 flights
These figures cover 460 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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
American against every carrier on OGG to PHX
American flew 460 of the 825 flights on OGG to PHX, most of the route. Its 91.9% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 94.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 97.3% to American at 91.9%.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 365 | 97.3% | 42 min | 0.27% | A+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 460 | 91.9% | 169 min | 0.43% | A+ |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on OGG to PHX
Departure window
When American 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 460 flights.
The overnight block holds up unusually well at 91.9% on time across 460 flights. Red-eyes fly into empty airspace and empty gates, and they are the first rotation of the aircraft's day rather than the last. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 460 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on OGG to PHX through the year
December is the weak month at 77.4% on time, against 100.0% in February. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. March was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 93.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 89.4%. 5 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 6,267 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.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 17%Extreme weather
- 7%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 17% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,267 reported delay minutes.
43% 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 6,267 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 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.
Cancellations are rare at 0.43%, 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 2.4% 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 2,844 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 86.2% on time across 460 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 460 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 American on OGG to PHX
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 460 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 91.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 458 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- OGG to PHX, every carrier
- American on PHX to OGG, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on OGG to PHX97.3%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.