Carrier route record
HAOGG→SFO
Hawaiian Airlines · Kahului to San Francisco
- 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 SFO 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 50 minutes. That rests on 122 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Hawaiian's OGG to SFO record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 129 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 122 completed flights
Avg delay
49 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
90.4%
Every carrier on OGG to SFO, 1,703 flights
These figures cover 122 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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
Hawaiian against every carrier on OGG to SFO
Hawaiian flew 122 of the 1,703 flights on OGG to SFO, about 7% of it. Its 90.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 90.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 90.9% to Alaska at 87.9%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
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 Airlines (this page)thin sample | 122 | 90.2% | 49 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Alaska Airlinesthin sample | 268 | 87.9% | 81 min | 0.75% | A+ |
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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.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Hawaiian's OGG to SFO record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 90.2% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
Hawaiian on OGG to SFO through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights88.0%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 90.2% on time across 122 flights.
Split by quarter, Hawaiian on OGG to SFO 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 90.2% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late Hawaiian on OGG to SFO runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 6 of the 12 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 3 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early27 flights22.1%
- Within 15 min83 flights68.0%
- 15–29 min late6 flights4.9%
- 30–59 min late3 flights2.5%
- 1–2 hours late2 flights1.6%
- 2+ hours late1 flights0.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 122 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 17 of 122 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for Hawaiian on OGG to SFO
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 October 2025, 2 hours 30 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in October 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 October 2025 | 2 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 September 2025 | 1 hour 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 October 2025 | 1 hour 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 October 2025 | 46 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 November 2025 | 39 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why Hawaiian runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 76% of the 588 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 76%Carrier
- 24%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 76%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 445 of the 588 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 588 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are 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 2.5% 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 81.0% on time across 122 flights, 9 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 9 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 SFO
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 90.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 122 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- OGG to SFO, every carrier
- Hawaiian on SFO to OGG, the return leg
- United Airlines on OGG to SFO90.9%
- Alaska Airlines on OGG to SFO87.9%
- Hawaiian Airlines network-wide record
- Kahului Airport (OGG) delay statistics
- San Francisco International (SFO) delay statistics
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.