Hilo International in March 2025

89.0%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 March 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 566 domestic departures from Hilo International (ITO). 89.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 89.6% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.9% of flights departed on time and 79.3% arrived on time, so ITO departures were 9.1 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in March 2024, the airport had 574 departures with 89.5% leaving on time: a change of −0.5 points, with flights down 1%.

Flights arriving at ITO that month were on time 88.5% of the time (566 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 70% and air carrier 30%.

On time 89.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 9.7%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2025	Mar 2024	ITO, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2025
Departed on time	89.0%	89.5%	84.5%	79.9%
Arrived on time	89.6%	91.5%	82.8%	79.3%
Cancelled	0.7%	0.2%	1.0%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	4.7 min	4.8 min	7.5 min	14.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	19	19	18	20,029
Scheduled departures	566	574	6,609	600,872

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
HA Hawaiian Airlines	411	73%	86.1%	4.2 min	1.0%
WN Southwest Airlines	155	27%	98.7%	-11.2 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
ITO–HNL	Hilo to Honolulu	540	89.3%	0.1 min	0.7%
ITO–OGG	Hilo to Kahului	26	96.2%	-2.9 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

100

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

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

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	29.6%	33.0%	612
Late-arriving aircraft	70.4%	39.2%	1,458
National Aviation System	0.0%	21.9%	0
Extreme weather	0.0%	5.9%	0
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

2,070 delay minutes on 55 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 March 2025?

89.0% of 566 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 89.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.9% and 79.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In March 2024, 89.5% of 574 departures left on time and 0.2% were cancelled, against 89.0% and 0.7% in March 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for March 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.