Route reliability record
LAX→OGG
Los Angeles to Kahului
- Flights
- 2,170
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 2,485 mi
- Carriers
- 6
This route lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 2,170 LAX to OGG flights, of which United Airlines flew 581 at 86.5% on time.
Best time to fly LAX to OGG: a 11am–2pm departure, ideally on a Friday. Flights in that window arrived on time 93.5% of the time and Friday flights 84.5%, against 81.6% for the route overall.
United Airlines is the most reliable of the four carriers covered here at 86.5% on time across 581 flights.
Key figures
On time
81.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,155 completed flights
Avg delay
59 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.60%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
United
86.5% on time across 581 flights
These figures cover 2,170 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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
Which airline is most reliable on LAX to OGG
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 86.5% of the time; Alaska Airlines manages 73.9%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 376 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 581 | 86.5% | 30 min | 0.52% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines | 506 | 84.7% | 81 min | 0.79% | B+ |
| Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample | 122 | 82.6% | 39 min | 0.82% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 5 | 80.0% | 59 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| American Airlines | 580 | 78.9% | 77 min | 0.17% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines | 376 | 73.9% | 45 min | 1.06% | C |
The spread between United and Alaska is 13 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 13 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
Flight by flight
Flights on LAX to OGG
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Los Angeles to Kahului
Every airline on this route, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time, with its best departure time and most punctual flight number. No nearby airport pair beat these.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. LAX → OGGLos Angeles to Kahului | United Airlines | 86.1% | 86.5% | 0.52% | 11am–2pm, Thu | UA 417 09:00 |
| 2. LAX → OGGLos Angeles to Kahului | Delta Air Lines | 84.0% | 84.7% | 0.79% | 8am–11am, Sat | — |
| 3. LAX → OGGLos Angeles to Kahului | American Airlines | 78.8% | 78.9% | 0.17% | 8am–11am, Tue | AA 271 08:52 |
| 4. LAX → OGGLos Angeles to Kahului | Alaska Airlines | 73.1% | 73.9% | 1.06% | 2pm–5pm, Tue | — |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 21 points, against 13 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am55 flights85.2%
- 8am–11am1,506 flights83.2%
- 11am–2pm94 flights93.5%
- 2pm–5pm59 flights86.2%
- 5pm–8pm456 flights72.8%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 93.5% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 72.8%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 1,506 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter LAX to OGG by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On LAX to OGG, the best departure window is 11am–2pm at 93.5% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 72.8%, a wide gap of 20.7 points. All US flights leaving 11am–2pm ran 78.3%.
- 5–8am85.2%
- 8–11am83.2%
- 11am–2pm93.5%
- 2–5pm86.2%
- 5–8pm72.8%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 60% to 100%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 17 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
August is the worst month at 75.0% on time, 17 points below November, the best at 91.9%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. July was the busiest month here, with 279 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 84.5% on time and Monday the weakest at 76.0%, a spread of 9 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carrier accounts for 47% of the 23,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Carrier
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 47%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 11,000 of the 23,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 23,166 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.60%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
5.2% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 2,485 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 runs 80.5% on time across 2,169 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 2,170 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in OGG after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. November runs 91.9% on time and August 75.0%, a swing of 17 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of August before you think about anything else. 2,155 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
LAX to OGG questions
How often is LAX to OGG delayed?
Roughly one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 18.4% of the 2,170 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on LAX to OGG?
United Airlines leads at 86.5% on time across 581 flights. Alaska Airlines is at the other end on 73.9%, a gap of 13 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on LAX to OGG?
The 11am–2pm departure window is the strongest at 93.5% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 72.8%, 21 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are August delays on LAX to OGG?
August is the weakest month at 75.0% on time, compared with 91.9% in November. Across the year that is 17 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- OGG to LAX — the return legseparate record
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Kahului Airport (OGG) delay statistics
- United Airlines on LAX to OGG86.5%
- Delta Air Lines on LAX to OGG84.7%
- Hawaiian Airlines on LAX to OGG82.6%
- American Airlines on LAX to OGG78.9%
- Alaska Airlines on LAX to OGG73.9%
- LAX to SFO, a related route60.1%
- HNL to OGG, a related route84.1%
- LAX to JFK, a related route77.5%
- United Airlines on-time record86.5%
- Delta Air Lines on-time record84.7%
- Hawaiian Airlines on-time record82.6%
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. LAX to OGG and OGG to LAX are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.