KOA to HNL flight delays
Kona, HI (KOA) Honolulu, HI (HNL) · 163 miles
586 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
86.23%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0.85%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
37 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
7 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. Southwest Airlines arrived on time 14.7 points more often than Alaska Airlines over the same period on the same route — same airports, same weather, same air traffic control. A gap that survives all of that is about how the two airlines are run.
Flights from Kona to Honolulu keep to schedule more reliably than most. On a route this punctual the day you fly matters more than the airline you pick.
This is a thin route — 586 flights across the whole period. On a route this infrequent a cancellation is far more costly than the rate suggests, because the next departure may not be the same day.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, Southwest Airlines arrived on time most often on KOA to HNL. Alaska Airlines was late most often.
Every airline on KOA to HNL
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Airlines | 440 | 82.53% | 1.14% | 36 min | B |
| Southwest Airlines | 146 | 97.26% | 0% | 46 min | A |
The return leg
HNL to KOA Honolulu back to Kona 87.65% on time AOther routes from Kona
Common questions
Are flights from Kona to Honolulu usually delayed?
86.23% of flights on the KOA to HNL route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 1 in every ten arrived late. That is better than the average route in this record.
Which airline is most on time from Kona to Honolulu?
Southwest Airlines, at 97.26% on time across 146 flights. The least punctual on the route was Alaska Airlines at 82.53%.
How often are KOA to HNL flights cancelled?
0.85% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 9 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
When KOA to HNL flights are late, how late are they?
About 37 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on KOA to HNL during March 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →