Route reliability record
OGG→SFO
Kahului to San Francisco
- Flights
- 1,703
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 2,338 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route 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 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 1,703 OGG to SFO flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Best time to fly OGG to SFO: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Monday. Flights in that window arrived on time 96.6% of the time and Monday flights 92.3%, against 90.4% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 131 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,687 completed flights
Avg delay
66 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.76%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
United
90.9% on time across 1,313 flights
These figures cover 1,703 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 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.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on OGG to SFO
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 1,313 | 90.9% | 63 min | 0.84% | A+ |
| Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample | 122 | 90.2% | 49 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Alaska Airlinesthin sample | 268 | 87.9% | 81 min | 0.75% | A+ |
Flight by flight
Flights on OGG to SFO
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Kahului to San Francisco
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 1 of the top 2 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. OGG → OAKKahului to Oakland | Southwest Airlines | 95.9% | 95.9% | 0.00% | 8am–11am, Tue | — |
| 2. OGG → SFOKahului to San Francisco | United Airlines | 90.1% | 90.9% | 0.84% | 8am–11am, Thu | UA 1750 21:55 |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 16 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am208 flights96.6%
- 8am–11am263 flights91.2%
- 11am–2pm517 flights87.5%
- 2pm–5pm244 flights81.1%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am471 flights95.3%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 96.6% of the time, against 81.1% for the afternoon window. That is 16 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 517 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter OGG to SFO by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On OGG to SFO, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 96.6% on time and the worst is 2pm–5pm at 81.1%, a wide gap of 15.5 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am96.6%
- 8–11am91.2%
- 11am–2pm87.5%
- 2–5pm81.1%
- 5–8pm—
- 8pm–5am95.3%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 100%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
Twelve months, one bar each, drawn from the same 1,703 flights. The strip shows how much of this route's record is set by the calendar rather than by the operation.
February is the weak month at 85.4% on time, against 95.8% in September. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 190 flights.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 92.3% on time and Friday the weakest at 86.9%, a spread of 5 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carrier accounts for 56% of the 11,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Carrier
- 22%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 56%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,970 of the 11,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 10,663 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.76%, 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 actually costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.2% 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 2,338 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 86.8% on time across 1,703 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,703 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in SFO after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: take the 5am–8am departure, avoid February if the dates are flexible, and if two carriers are within a few dollars of each other, United is the one with the record behind it. None of that guarantees an on-time arrival; it moves the odds by 16 points, which is the most any booking decision can do. 1,687 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
OGG to SFO questions
How often is OGG to SFO delayed?
About one flight in ten arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 9.6% of the 1,703 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
How reliable is OGG to SFO compared with the rest of the country?
90.4% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 13 points in its favour. That is worth a A+ on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on OGG to SFO?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 96.6% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 81.1%, 16 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are February delays on OGG to SFO?
February is the weakest month at 85.4% on time, compared with 95.8% in September. Across the year that is 10 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- SFO to OGG — the return legseparate record
- Kahului Airport (OGG) delay statistics
- San Francisco International (SFO) delay statistics
- United Airlines on OGG to SFO90.9%
- Hawaiian Airlines on OGG to SFO90.2%
- Alaska Airlines on OGG to SFO87.9%
- OGG to HNL, a related route84.1%
- LAX to SFO, a related route60.1%
- OGG to LAX, a related route80.5%
- United Airlines on-time record90.9%
- Hawaiian Airlines on-time record90.2%
- Alaska Airlines on-time record87.9%
- The most punctual routes in the US, and the least
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. OGG to SFO and SFO to OGG are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.