Route reliability record
PHX→OGG
Phoenix to Kahului
- Flights
- 860
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 2,844 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route lands a B+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average. That rests on 860 PHX to OGG flights, of which American Airlines flew 495 at 85.2% on time.
Best time to fly PHX to OGG: a 11am–2pm departure, ideally on a Saturday. Flights in that window arrived on time 84.8% of the time and Saturday flights 87.5%, against 83.2% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 59 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 851 completed flights
Avg delay
48 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.35%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
American
85.2% on time across 495 flights
These figures cover 860 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 PHX to OGG
The two carriers here are closely matched: 5 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 495 | 85.2% | 53 min | 0.61% | A+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 365 | 80.5% | 43 min | 0.00% | B+ |
No carrier stands out. American tops the table at 85.2%, 5 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
Flight by flight
Flights on PHX to OGG
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 Phoenix to Kahului
Every airline on this route, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time, with its best departure time and most punctual flight number. No nearby airport pair beat these.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. PHX → OGGPhoenix to Kahului | American Airlines | 84.7% | 85.2% | 0.61% | 8am–11am, Sat | AA 645 11:55 |
| 2. PHX → OGGPhoenix to Kahului | Southwest Airlines | 80.5% | 80.5% | 0.00% | 8am–11am, Tue | — |
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 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 860 flights.
- 5am–8am4 flights—
- 8am–11am512 flights82.6%
- 11am–2pm290 flights84.8%
- 2pm–5pm54 flights83.0%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 84.8% on time. The full set of windows spans 2 points.
Explore
Filter PHX to OGG 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 PHX to OGG, the best departure window is 11am–2pm at 84.8% on time and the worst is 8am–11am at 82.6%, a narrow gap of 2.2 points. All US flights leaving 11am–2pm ran 78.3%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am82.6%
- 11am–2pm84.8%
- 2–5pm83.0%
- 5–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 40 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
November is the best month on the calendar at 96.6% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. March was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 87.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 78.7%, a spread of 9 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carrier accounts for 47% of the 6,882 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 47%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,266 of the 6,882 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,882 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.35%, 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 4.2% 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 2,844 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 93.0% on time across 860 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. 860 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.
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What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 860 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 83.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 851 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
PHX to OGG questions
How often is PHX to OGG delayed?
About one flight in six arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 16.8% of the 860 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average.
Which airline is most reliable on PHX to OGG?
American Airlines leads at 85.2% on time across 495 flights. Southwest Airlines is at the other end on 80.5%, a gap of 5 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on PHX to OGG?
The 11am–2pm departure window is the strongest at 84.8% on time. The 8am–11am window is the weakest at 82.6%, 2 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 April delays on PHX to OGG?
April is the weakest month at 56.9% on time, compared with 96.6% in November. Across the year that is 40 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
- OGG to PHX — the return legseparate record
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- Kahului Airport (OGG) delay statistics
- American Airlines on PHX to OGG85.2%
- Southwest Airlines on PHX to OGG80.5%
- PHX to DEN, a related route76.7%
- HNL to OGG, a related route84.1%
- PHX to LAX, a related route82.1%
- American Airlines on-time record85.2%
- Southwest Airlines on-time record80.5%
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
- The best day of the week to fly, and why it is the second lever
Direction matters. PHX to OGG and OGG to PHX 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.