Carrier route record

ASLAX→OGG

Alaska Airlines · Los Angeles to Kahului

Flights: 265
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 13%
Carriers: 6

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Alaska Airlines.

Alaska on LAX to OGG lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 45 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 265 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, 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.

On time

77.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 262 completed flights

Avg delay

45 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.75%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

83.9%

Every carrier on LAX to OGG, 2,117 flights

These figures cover 265 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 4 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

Alaska against every carrier on LAX to OGG

Alaska flew 265 of the 2,117 flights on LAX to OGG, about 13% of it. Its 77.5% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 83.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 89.0% to Alaska at 77.5%. 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 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.

On-time performance by carrier on LAX to OGG
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 Airlines (this page)thin 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

When Alaska runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 13 points, against 8 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am230 flights75.8%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm35 flights88.6%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 2pm–5pm slot at 88.6% on time, ahead of 8am–11am at 75.8%. 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 230 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Alaska on LAX to OGG through the year

Jan–Mar 2026104 flights77.5%
Apr–Jun 2026161 flights77.5%

Scale runs 70% to 85%. 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 77.5% on time across 265 flights.

Split by quarter, Alaska on LAX to OGG logged 104 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 161 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 77.5% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 84.2% on time and Saturday the weakest at 71.1%. 13 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Alaska runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 69% of the 2,625 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.

Carrier
69%
National Airspace System
19%
Late-arriving aircraft
10%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 69%, 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 1,808 of the 2,625 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,625 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.75%, 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 costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.6% 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 67.8% on time across 265 flights, 10 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 10 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 265 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 Alaska on LAX to OGG

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 265 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 77.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 262 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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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