Kailua-Kona to San Francisco nonstop
Yes: United and Alaska fly direct from Kailua-Kona (KOA) to San Francisco (SFO) about 4 times a day, year-round.
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Kailua-Kona to San Francisco in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 2,368 miles nonstop, about 5 hr 25 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: busiest in July 2026 (35 flights a week), quietest in November 2025 (15 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 18 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 15 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 15 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 20 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 20 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 20 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 22 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 23 flights a week
- May 2026: 23 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 34 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 35 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 29 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 79%, Alaska 21% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 2,287 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $250 and $425 one way, median $300. 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 $250 one way, middle half $200 to $350, 1,732 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $250 one way, middle half $175 to $500, 1,996 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $250 one way, middle half $175 to $425, 1,626 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $300 one way, middle half $250 to $425, 2,287 tickets
Jul to Sep, Oct to Dec and Jan to Mar trips were the cheapest (median $250 one way) and Apr to Jun trips cost the most (median $300), in the DOT ticket survey for Q3 2024 to Q2 2025. Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? San Francisco to Kailua-Kona nonstop.
Other airports near Kailua-Kona with nonstops to San Francisco
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
- Honolulu (HNL) about 19 times a day
- Los Angeles (LAX) 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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