Carrier route record

HASFO→OGG

Hawaiian Airlines · San Francisco 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 SFO to OGG lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 122 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Hawaiian on SFO to OGG from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

81.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 121 completed flights

Avg delay

106 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

86.8%

Every carrier on SFO to OGG, 1,703 flights

These figures cover 122 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 SFO to OGG

Hawaiian flew 122 of the 1,703 flights on SFO to OGG, about 7% of it. Its 81.0% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 86.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 87.5% to Hawaiian at 81.0%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on SFO to OGG
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
United Airlines	1,313	87.5%	45 min	0.46%	A+
Alaska Airlinesthin sample	268	86.0%	90 min	1.12%	A
Hawaiian Airlines (this page)thin sample	122	81.0%	106 min	0.00%	B+

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Departure window

When Hawaiian runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 14 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am42 flights90.2%
8am–11am80 flights76.2%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 90.2% of the time, against 76.2% for the morning window. That is 14 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 80 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Hawaiian on SFO to OGG through the year

Jul–Sep 202530 flights96.7%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights75.8%

Scale runs 65% to 100%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 81.0% on time across 122 flights.

Split by quarter, Hawaiian on SFO 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 81.0% annual figure is the one to use.

Arrival by arrival

How late Hawaiian on SFO to OGG runs when it is late

Hawaiian on SFO to OGG often beats the schedule: 48 of 121 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 23 late arrivals split 8 under half an hour, 6 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 9 an hour or more.

15+ min early48 flights39.7%
Within 15 min50 flights41.3%
15–29 min late8 flights6.6%
30–59 min late6 flights5.0%
1–2 hours late5 flights4.1%
2+ hours late4 flights3.3%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 121 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

A late pushback is often recovered here: of 29 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 13 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 7 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 SFO to OGG

The latest arrival of the period was on 17 October 2025, 15 hours 50 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.

The latest arrivals of Hawaiian on SFO to OGG in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
17 October 2025	15 hours 50 minutes	Carrier
8 November 2025	4 hours 32 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
18 October 2025	2 hours 47 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
20 December 2025	2 hours 38 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
19 October 2025	1 hour 54 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why Hawaiian runs late on this route

Carrier accounts for 57% of the 2,430 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
57%
Late-arriving aircraft
43%
National Airspace System
0%

43% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,430 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 43 to one. The split is drawn from 2,430 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 57%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,383 of the 2,430 delay minutes reported here.

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

7.4% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

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 90.2% on time across 122 flights, 9 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 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 SFO 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 81.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 121 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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