Carrier route record

DLLAX→OGG

Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Kahului

Flights: 507
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 24%
Carriers: 6

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

Delta on LAX to OGG earns a B+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 507 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 576 at 89.0% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, Delta's LAX to OGG record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 71 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 503 completed flights

Avg delay

71 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.79%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

83.9%

Every carrier on LAX to OGG, 2,117 flights

These figures cover 507 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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

Delta against every carrier on LAX to OGG

Delta flew 507 of the 2,117 flights on LAX to OGG, about 24% of it. Its 84.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 83.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two 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 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 (this page)	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

When Delta 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 507 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am365 flights86.5%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm24 flights—
5pm–8pm118 flights79.5%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 86.5% on time for the 8am–11am window against 79.5% for 5pm–8pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 365 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Delta on LAX to OGG through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.November best, January worst

January is the weak month at 75.0% on time, against 93.8% 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. May was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.

Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 90.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 78.9%. 11 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Delta runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 82% of the 5,449 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
82%
National Airspace System
12%
Late-arriving aircraft
6%

The largest share of delay minutes, 82%, 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 4,445 of the 5,449 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,449 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.79%, 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

6.6% 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 83.5% on time across 506 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. 507 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 Delta on LAX to OGG

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 507 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 84.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 503 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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