Carrier route record
AALAX→OGG
American Airlines · Los Angeles to Kahului
- Flights
- 580
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 27%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on LAX to OGG lands a B+, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 580 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 581 at 86.5% on time.
United Airlines is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 86.5% on time across 581 flights.
Key figures
On time
78.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 579 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.17%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
81.6%
Every carrier on LAX to OGG, 2,170 flights
These figures cover 580 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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
American against every carrier on LAX to OGG
American flew 580 of the 2,170 flights on LAX to OGG, about 27% of it. Its 78.9% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 81.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number five of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 86.5% to Alaska at 73.9%. 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 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 (this page) | 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
American flight numbers on LAX to OGG
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Departure window
When American 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 580 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am363 flights81.5%
- 11am–2pm2 flights—
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm215 flights74.3%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 81.5% on time for the 8am–11am window against 74.3% for 5pm–8pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 363 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on LAX to OGG through the year
January is the weak month at 63.9% on time, against 93.3% in June. 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. May was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 85.5% on time and Monday the weakest at 67.4%, a spread of 18 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on LAX to OGG runs when it is late
American on LAX to OGG often beats the schedule: 191 of 579 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 122 late arrivals split 42 under half an hour, 34 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 46 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early191 flights33.0%
- Within 15 min266 flights45.9%
- 15–29 min late42 flights7.3%
- 30–59 min late34 flights5.9%
- 1–2 hours late33 flights5.7%
- 2+ hours late13 flights2.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 579 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
28 of 112 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. In the other direction, 38 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at OGG.
The worst days
Worst days for American on LAX to OGG
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 March 2026, 23 hours 29 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in March 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 March 2026 | 23 hours 29 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 March 2026 | 14 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 August 2026 | 7 hours 58 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 12 October 2025 | 4 hours 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 March 2026 | 3 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 9,402 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 15%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,402 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 9,402 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 81.5% on time here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.17%, 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 costs
7.9% 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 a little over 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 82.7% on time across 580 flights, 4 points above 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 580 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 American on LAX to OGG
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 580 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 78.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 579 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to OGG, every carrier
- American on OGG to LAX, the return leg
- United Airlines on LAX to OGG86.5%
- Delta Air Lines on LAX to OGG84.7%
- Hawaiian Airlines on LAX to OGG82.6%
- Alaska Airlines on LAX to OGG73.9%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Kahului Airport (OGG) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
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.