KOA Kona

How deep the KOA board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from KOA. This reads the same 13 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 7of the 13 destinations are flown by one airline
• 0destinations run less than once a day
• 4destinations have four or more departures a day
• 69.2%of the destinations name Alaska Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at KOA

Seven airlines appear on the KOA board and they do not hold it evenly. Alaska Airlines is on 9 of the 13 destinations, 69.2 per cent of them, and on 3 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 46.7 of the 51.1 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Southwest Airlines on 4 destinations. 2 of the 7 airlines at KOA appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 9 of the 13 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a KOA sector is usually another Alaska Airlines aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at KOA than the destination count does.

How much of the KOA board is daily

Of the 13 destinations, 13 are flown at least once a day and 0 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the KOA board is flown about once a day.

An average of 1 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: KOA to Phoenix (PHX) is 7 a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 41.6 of the 51.1 departures a day, 81.3 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic KOA is five sectors and a short tail, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests and a hand carry that is not going to one of those five is planned around a single departure time.

The way back from KOA

The desk holds the return direction for 11 of the 13 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 11 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through KOA is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

The clock at KOA

KOA keeps Pacific/Honolulu time, 14 hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 19:00 at KOA, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

Where KOA turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the United States country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with KOA already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 13 destinations above.