Carrier route record
HASEA→OGG
Hawaiian Airlines · Seattle to Kahului
- 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 SEA to OGG sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 122 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 365 at 86.0% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so Hawaiian on SEA to OGG runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 68 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 122 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.2%
Every carrier on SEA to OGG, 1,809 flights
These figures cover 122 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.2% 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 SEA to OGG
Hawaiian flew 122 of the 1,809 flights on SEA to OGG, about 7% of it. Its 70.5% on time is 9 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 86.0% to Hawaiian at 70.5%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 86.0% of the time; Alaska Airlines manages 78.2%. 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 | 86.0% | 40 min | 0.82% | A+ |
| Alaska Airlines | 1,322 | 78.2% | 46 min | 0.61% | B+ |
| Hawaiian Airlines (this page)thin sample | 122 | 70.5% | 67 min | 0.00% | C+ |
Delta leads Alaska by 8 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.
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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 SEA to OGG record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 70.5% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
Hawaiian on SEA to OGG through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights67.4%
Scale runs 60% to 85%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 70.5% on time across 122 flights.
Split by quarter, Hawaiian on SEA to OGG 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 70.5% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late Hawaiian on SEA to OGG runs when it is late
The 36 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 11 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 10 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early14 flights11.5%
- Within 15 min72 flights59.0%
- 15–29 min late15 flights12.3%
- 30–59 min late11 flights9.0%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights4.1%
- 2+ hours late5 flights4.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 122 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 29 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 9 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 16 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 OGG.
The worst days
Worst days for Hawaiian on SEA to OGG
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 October 2025, 5 hours 38 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 20 October 2025 | 5 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 December 2025 | 4 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 October 2025 | 3 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 December 2025 | 3 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 October 2025 | 2 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Hawaiian runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 73% of the 2,428 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 73%Carrier
- 20%Late-arriving aircraft
- 7%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 73%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,783 of the 2,428 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,428 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
8.2% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 58.7% on time across 122 flights, 12 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 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 SEA to OGG
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 70.5% 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
- SEA to OGG, every carrier
- Hawaiian on OGG to SEA, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on SEA to OGG86.0%
- Alaska Airlines on SEA to OGG78.2%
- Hawaiian Airlines network-wide record
- Seattle-Tacoma International (SEA) delay statistics
- Kahului Airport (OGG) delay statistics
- Connecting flights: how much buffer the data says you need
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
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.