Hilo International in January 2025

90.3%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In January 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 567 domestic departures from Hilo International (ITO). 90.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 88.7% reached their destination on time; 1.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.3% of flights departed on time and 78.6% arrived on time, so ITO departures were 11.0 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in January 2024, the airport had 597 departures with 82.7% leaving on time: a change of +7.6 points, with flights down 5%.

Flights arriving at ITO that month were on time 88.7% of the time (567 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 60%, extreme weather 23% and air carrier 16%.

On time 88.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 9.3%
Cancelled 1.8%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from ITO in January 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Jan 2025	Jan 2024	ITO, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2025
Departed on time	90.3%	82.7%	84.5%	79.3%
Arrived on time	88.7%	78.4%	82.8%	78.6%
Cancelled	1.8%	1.0%	1.0%	3.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	6.9 min	8.0 min	7.5 min	14.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	19	20	18	17,992
Scheduled departures	567	597	6,609	539,747

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
HA Hawaiian Airlines	412	73%	86.2%	7.5 min	1.7%
WN Southwest Airlines	155	27%	95.5%	-7.8 min	1.9%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
ITO–HNL	Hilo to Honolulu	540	88.3%	3.4 min	1.9%
ITO–OGG	Hilo to Kahului	27	96.3%	2.6 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), January 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	15.8%	36.2%	573
Late-arriving aircraft	59.8%	34.7%	2,175
National Aviation System	1.6%	19.9%	59
Extreme weather	22.8%	9.1%	831
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

3,638 delay minutes on 53 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left ITO on time in January 2025?

90.3% of 567 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 88.7% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.3% and 78.6%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In January 2024, 82.7% of 597 departures left on time and 1.0% were cancelled, against 90.3% and 1.8% in January 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2025; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for ITO · methodology · corrections.