Route reliability record
LAX→OGG
Los Angeles to Kahului
- Flights
- 2,117
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Distance
- 2,485 mi
- Carriers
- 6
This route lands a B+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrive 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 2,117 flights, of which United Airlines flew 576 at 89.0% on time.
United Airlines is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 89.0% on time across 576 flights.
Key figures
On time
83.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,103 completed flights
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.52%
National rate is 1.81%
Best carrier
United
89.0% on time across 576 flights
These figures cover 2,117 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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.
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 89.0% of the time; American Airlines manages 81.3%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 580 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 576 | 89.0% | 41 min | 0.52% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines | 507 | 84.7% | 71 min | 0.79% | B+ |
| Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample | 184 | 83.6% | 39 min | 0.54% | B+ |
| American Airlines | 580 | 81.3% | 77 min | 0.17% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 5 | 80.0% | 59 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlinesthin sample | 265 | 77.5% | 45 min | 0.75% | B+ |
United leads American by 8 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.
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 10 points, against 8 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am105 flights85.6%
- 8am–11am1,456 flights84.7%
- 11am–2pm53 flights90.2%
- 2pm–5pm59 flights86.2%
- 5pm–8pm444 flights79.8%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 90.2% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 79.8%. 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 1,456 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 13 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.
February is the weak month at 78.6% on time, against 91.9% in November. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. June was the busiest month here, with 249 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 86.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 80.1%. 6 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 51% of the 20,000 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.
- 51%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 15%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 51%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 10,000 of the 20,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 20,161 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.52%, below the national 1.81% 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.9% 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 2,485 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 80.8% on time across 2,116 flights, 3 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 3 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 2,117 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.
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 February 78.6%, a swing of 13 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of February before you think about anything else. 2,103 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
LAX to OGG questions
How often is LAX to OGG delayed?
About one flight in six arrive at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 16.1% of the 2,117 flights in this analysis, against 22.4% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on LAX to OGG?
United Airlines leads at 89.0% on time across 576 flights. American Airlines is at the other end on 81.3%, a gap of 8 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 90.2% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 79.8%, 10 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 February delays on LAX to OGG?
February is the weakest month at 78.6% on time, compared with 91.9% in November. Across the year that is 13 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
- United Airlines on-time record89.0%
- Delta Air Lines on-time record84.7%
- Hawaiian Airlines on-time record83.6%
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Updated monthly. How this data is collected.