Carrier route record
AALAX→OGG
American Airlines · Los Angeles to Kahului
- Flights
- 580
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 27%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on LAX to OGG lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. 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 is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 580 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 576 at 89.0% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate American on LAX to OGG from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
81.3%
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 1.81%
Whole route
83.9%
Every carrier on LAX to OGG, 2,117 flights
These figures cover 580 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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
American against every carrier on LAX to OGG
American flew 580 of the 2,117 flights on LAX to OGG, about 27% of it. Its 81.3% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 83.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 89.0% to Alaska at 77.5%. Three of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The two carriers here are closely matched: 4 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| 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 (this page) | 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+ |
No carrier stands out. United tops the table at 89.0%, 4 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on LAX to OGG
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 flights82.4%
- 11am–2pm2 flights—
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm215 flights79.4%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8am–11am window is the strongest at 82.4% on time. The full set of windows spans 3 points.
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, Saturday is the strongest day at 88.1% on time and Monday the weakest at 75.0%. 13 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 57% of the 8,319 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.
- 57%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
57% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 8,319 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 8,319 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 82.4% on time here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.17%, 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
6.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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 runs 82.3% on time across 580 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.
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 81.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 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 OGG89.0%
- Delta Air Lines on LAX to OGG84.7%
- Hawaiian Airlines on LAX to OGG83.6%
- Alaska Airlines on LAX to OGG77.5%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.