Southwest Airlines’ route between Maui and Kauai ranked among the carrier’s worst-performing routes with only 41.5% of seats filled between March 2025 and February 2026. The airline’s overall Hawaii operations continue to struggle with low load factors despite serving the islands since 2019.
- Southwest’s Maui (OGG) to Kauai route filled only 41.5% of seats, ranking as the second-worst performing route systemwide.
- All Southwest Hawaii routes collectively filled just 56.7% of seats, well below the airline’s 77.4% system average.
- Traffic on Hawaii routes increased 4% while available seats decreased 16%, improving load factors by 11 percentage points but still remaining very low.
- Southwest has operated intra-Hawaii flights since 2019 but continues to struggle with passenger demand on inter-island routes.
Source: Simpleflying
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