Carrier route record
HAOGG→SEA
Hawaiian Airlines · Kahului to Seattle
- Flights
- 122
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 7%
- 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 SEA draws a D+. Roughly one flight in two arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is roughly 45 minutes behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 122 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 365 at 95.3% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so Hawaiian on OGG to SEA runs 19 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 186 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
58.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 121 completed flights
Avg delay
47 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.82%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
81.1%
Every carrier on OGG to SEA, 1,809 flights
These figures cover 122 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Hawaiian against every carrier on OGG to SEA
Hawaiian flew 122 of the 1,809 flights on OGG to SEA, about 7% of it. Its 58.7% on time is 22 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 81.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 95.3% to Hawaiian at 58.7%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 95.3% of the time; Alaska Airlines manages 79.3%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,322 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 365 | 95.3% | 94 min | 1.10% | A |
| Alaska Airlines | 1,322 | 79.3% | 52 min | 1.82% | B |
| Hawaiian Airlines (this page)thin sample | 122 | 58.7% | 47 min | 0.82% | D+ |
The spread between Delta and Alaska is 16 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 16 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 122 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm62 flights54.8%
- 2pm–5pm60 flights62.7%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 45% to 70%. 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 54.8% on time against 62.7% for 2pm–5pm. 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 62 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Hawaiian on OGG to SEA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights51.6%
Scale runs 45% to 85%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 58.7% on time across 122 flights.
Split by quarter, Hawaiian on OGG to SEA logged 30 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 92 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 58.7% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late Hawaiian on OGG to SEA runs when it is late
The 50 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 14 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 15 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early10 flights8.3%
- Within 15 min61 flights50.4%
- 15–29 min late21 flights17.4%
- 30–59 min late14 flights11.6%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights9.9%
- 2+ hours late3 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 121 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 29 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 3 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 24 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at SEA.
The worst days
Worst days for Hawaiian on OGG to SEA
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 October 2025, 2 hours 50 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 October 2025 | 2 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 November 2025 | 2 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 November 2025 | 2 hours | Carrier |
| 16 December 2025 | 1 hour 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 October 2025 | 1 hour 31 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why Hawaiian runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 80% of the 2,356 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 80%Carrier
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 80%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,877 of the 2,356 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,356 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, 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
12.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 2,639 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 70.5% on time across 122 flights, 12 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 12 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 122 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 SEA
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 122 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 58.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 121 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- OGG to SEA, every carrier
- Hawaiian on SEA to OGG, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on OGG to SEA95.3%
- Alaska Airlines on OGG to SEA79.3%
- Hawaiian Airlines network-wide record
- Kahului Airport (OGG) delay statistics
- Seattle-Tacoma International (SEA) delay statistics
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.