Hilo International in October 2025

87.6%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 October 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 541 domestic departures from Hilo International (ITO). 87.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.8% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.0% of flights departed on time and 79.1% arrived on time, so ITO departures were 7.6 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in October 2024, the airport had 551 departures with 89.3% leaving on time: a change of −1.7 points, with flights down 2%.

Flights arriving at ITO that month were on time 90.4% of the time (541 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 62%, air carrier 30% and national aviation system 5%.

On time 87.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 11.8%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2025	Oct 2024	ITO, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2025
Departed on time	87.6%	89.3%	84.5%	80.0%
Arrived on time	87.8%	89.1%	82.8%	79.1%
Cancelled	0.4%	0.9%	1.0%	0.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	6.0 min	4.8 min	7.5 min	13.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	18	18	18	20,195
Scheduled departures	541	551	6,609	605,844

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
HA Hawaiian Airlines	386	71%	84.2%	5.0 min	0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines	155	29%	96.8%	-10.4 min	1.3%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
ITO–HNL	Hilo to Honolulu	514	88.1%	0.2 min	0.4%
ITO–OGG	Hilo to Kahului	27	81.5%	7.6 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), October 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	30.3%	34.0%	695
Late-arriving aircraft	61.6%	39.7%	1,415
National Aviation System	5.4%	22.9%	124
Extreme weather	2.7%	3.3%	63
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

2,297 delay minutes on 64 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 October 2025?

87.6% of 541 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.0% and 79.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In October 2024, 89.3% of 551 departures left on time and 0.9% were cancelled, against 87.6% and 0.4% in October 2025.

Provenance

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