Flight number record

DL 435

Delta Air Lines · Lihue to Los Angeles

Route: LIH → LAX
Departs: 20:35
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 435, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 435 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 14 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 435's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 137 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

91.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights

Avg delay

65 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.19%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Schedule

When DL 435 flies

DL 435 flies LIH to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:35, used on 64 of 365 flights, with 22:55 (41 flights) and 22:05 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 20:3564 flights17.5%
Departs 22:5541 flights11.2%
Departs 22:0537 flights10.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.

A 20:35 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 435 runs 21 points better at 91.3%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 435 next to LIH to LAX

Every carrier on LIH to LAX combined arrived on time 83.2% of the time across 1,539 flights, so DL 435 is 8 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 10 points.

DL 435 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 435	365	91.3%	65 min	2.19%	A
All Delta Air Lines on LIH–LAX	365	91.3%	65 min	2.19%	A
All carriers on LIH–LAX	1,539	83.2%	59 min	0.71%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 435 quarter by quarter

DL 435 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 95.6% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 82.6%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 91 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights95.6%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights94.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.6%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.2%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 435 did best on Wednesday at 98.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 83.7%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 435 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 1,998 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Late-arriving aircraft
46%
Carrier
32%
National Airspace System
18%
Extreme weather
4%

46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 1,998 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 1,998 delay minutes reported on DL 435.

Cancellations sit at 2.19% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.55%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

At 2,615 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.

Every one of the 365 flights under DL 435 in the data flew LIH to LAX. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

What to do with this

Booking DL 435

For a booking, read DL 435 as 91.3% on time with 2.19% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

Where to go next

A flight number here means Delta Air Lines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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