Carrier route record

HALAX→LIH

Hawaiian Airlines · Los Angeles to Lihue

Flights: 122
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 8%
Carriers: 6

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Hawaiian Airlines.

Hawaiian on LAX to LIH 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 40 minutes. That rests on 122 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 377 at 94.7% on time.

United Airlines is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 94.7% on time across 377 flights.

On time

89.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 121 completed flights

Avg delay

40 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

82.9%

Every carrier on LAX to LIH, 1,605 flights

These figures cover 122 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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.

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Carrier by carrier

Hawaiian against every carrier on LAX to LIH

Hawaiian flew 122 of the 1,605 flights on LAX to LIH, about 8% of it. Its 89.3% on time is 6 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 82.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 100.0% to American at 75.1%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 94.7% of the time; American Airlines manages 75.1%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 446 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on LAX to LIH
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlinesthin sample	23	100.0%	—	0.00%	A+
United Airlines	377	94.7%	44 min	0.80%	A+
Hawaiian Airlines (this page)thin sample	122	89.3%	40 min	0.00%	A+
Delta Air Lines	365	82.0%	79 min	1.10%	B
Alaska Airlinesthin sample	272	76.5%	46 min	1.10%	B
American Airlines	446	75.1%	47 min	0.67%	B+

The spread between United and American is 20 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 20 more arrivals inside the on-time window.

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Departure window

When Hawaiian runs best on this route

Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 122 flights.

5am–8am35 flights91.4%
8am–11am87 flights88.4%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 80% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5am–8am window is the strongest at 91.4% on time. The full set of windows spans 3 points.

Across the year

Hawaiian on LAX to LIH through the year

Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.0%

Scale runs 80% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 89.3% on time across 122 flights.

Split by quarter, Hawaiian on LAX to LIH logged 30 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 92 flights in Oct–Dec 2025. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 89.3% annual figure is the one to use.

Arrival by arrival

How late Hawaiian on LAX to LIH runs when it is late

Hawaiian on LAX to LIH often beats the schedule: 43 of 121 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 13 late arrivals split 6 under half an hour, 5 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 2 an hour or more. Not one arrived two hours late.

15+ min early43 flights35.5%
Within 15 min65 flights53.7%
15–29 min late6 flights5.0%
30–59 min late5 flights4.1%
1–2 hours late2 flights1.7%
2+ hours late0 flights0.0%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 121 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Only 13 of 121 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.

The worst days

Worst days for Hawaiian on LAX to LIH

The latest arrival of the period was on 22 November 2025, 1 hour 49 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in December 2025.

The latest arrivals of Hawaiian on LAX to LIH in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
22 November 2025	1 hour 49 minutes	Carrier
17 December 2025	1 hour 35 minutes	Carrier
15 December 2025	47 minutes	Carrier
24 December 2025	44 minutes	Carrier
10 September 2025	38 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why Hawaiian runs late on this route

Carrier accounts for 90% of the 514 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
90%
Extreme weather
10%

The largest share of delay minutes, 90%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 462 of the 514 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 514 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 65.6% on time across 122 flights, 24 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 24 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 122 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 Hawaiian on LAX to LIH

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 122 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 89.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 121 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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