Kailua-Kona to Honolulu nonstop
Yes: Alaska and Southwest fly direct from Kailua-Kona (KOA) to Honolulu (HNL) about 19 times a day, year-round.
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Kailua-Kona to Honolulu in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 163 miles nonstop, about 50 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year, a steady 137 flights a week.
- Sep 2025: 132 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 132 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 132 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 137 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 145 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 143 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 136 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 136 flights a week
- May 2026: 141 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 136 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 135 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 134 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Alaska 76%, Southwest 24% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 12,171 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $75 and $100 one way, median $75. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $75 one way, middle half $50 to $100, 13,189 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $75 one way, middle half $50 to $100, 12,257 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $75 one way, middle half $50 to $100, 11,719 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $75 one way, middle half $75 to $100, 12,171 tickets
Fares held steady through the year: a median of $75 one way in every quarter of the DOT ticket survey (Q3 2024 to Q2 2025). Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Honolulu to Kailua-Kona nonstop.
Other airports near Kailua-Kona with nonstops to Honolulu
Within about 100 miles of Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keāhole
Also nonstop from Kailua-Kona (KOA)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 4 times a day
- San Francisco (SFO) about 4 times a day
- Kahului (OGG) about 4 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 3 times a day
- Sacramento (SMF) about 10 times a week
- San Diego (SAN) about 7 times a week
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 7 times a week
- Lihue (LIH) about 7 times a week
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