Carrier route record
AAPHX→OGG
American Airlines · Phoenix to Kahului
- Flights
- 495
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 58%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on PHX to OGG earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 55 minutes. That rests on 495 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, American's PHX to OGG record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 79 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 486 completed flights
Avg delay
53 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.61%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
83.2%
Every carrier on PHX to OGG, 860 flights
These figures cover 495 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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
American against every carrier on PHX to OGG
American flew 495 of the 860 flights on PHX to OGG, most of the route. Its 85.2% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 83.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 85.2% to Southwest at 80.5%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines (this page) | 495 | 85.2% | 53 min | 0.61% | A+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 365 | 80.5% | 43 min | 0.00% | B+ |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on PHX to OGG
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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 495 flights.
- 5am–8am4 flights—
- 8am–11am149 flights87.8%
- 11am–2pm288 flights84.7%
- 2pm–5pm54 flights83.0%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 87.8% on time for the 8am–11am window against 83.0% for 2pm–5pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 288 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on PHX to OGG through the year
May is the best month on the calendar at 92.9% 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 62 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 91.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 77.1%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on PHX to OGG runs when it is late
American on PHX to OGG often beats the schedule: 236 of 486 completed flights, 49%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 72 late arrivals split 29 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 25 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early236 flights48.6%
- Within 15 min178 flights36.6%
- 15–29 min late29 flights6.0%
- 30–59 min late18 flights3.7%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights3.5%
- 2+ hours late8 flights1.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 486 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 73 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 25 still arrived on time. 24 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on PHX to OGG
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 March 2026, 3 hours 10 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 March 2026 | 3 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 December 2025 | 2 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 August 2026 | 2 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 August 2026 | 2 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 January 2026 | 2 hours 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 3,848 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 37%Carrier
- 17%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,848 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 46 to one. The split is drawn from 3,848 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,407 of the 3,848 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.61%, 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
5.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last roughly 55 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 90.2% on time across 495 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 495 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 PHX to OGG
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 495 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 85.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 486 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PHX to OGG, every carrier
- American on OGG to PHX, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on PHX to OGG80.5%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- Kahului Airport (OGG) 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.