Carrier route record

DLLAX→OGG

Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Kahului

Flights: 506
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 23%
Carriers: 6

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 506 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.

On time

84.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 502 completed flights

Avg delay

81 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.79%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

81.6%

Every carrier on LAX to OGG, 2,170 flights

These figures cover 506 flights between September 2025 and August 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.

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Carrier by carrier

Delta against every carrier on LAX to OGG

Delta flew 506 of the 2,170 flights on LAX to OGG, about 23% of it. Its 84.7% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 81.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two 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.

On-time performance by carrier on LAX to OGG
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
United Airlines	581	86.5%	30 min	0.52%	A+
Delta Air Lines (this page)	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	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.

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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 506 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am365 flights86.0%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm24 flights—
5pm–8pm117 flights81.0%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 86.0% on time for the 8am–11am window against 81.0% 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, Saturday is the strongest day at 90.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 77.5%, a spread of 13 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late Delta on LAX to OGG runs when it is late

Delta on LAX to OGG often beats the schedule: 222 of 502 completed flights, 44%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 77 late arrivals split 28 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 37 an hour or more.

15+ min early222 flights44.2%
Within 15 min203 flights40.4%
15–29 min late28 flights5.6%
30–59 min late12 flights2.4%
1–2 hours late18 flights3.6%
2+ hours late19 flights3.8%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 502 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

19 of 78 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. 18 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for Delta on LAX to OGG

The latest arrival of the period was on 5 August 2026, 4 hours 40 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of Delta on LAX to OGG in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
5 August 2026	4 hours 40 minutes	Carrier
22 July 2026	4 hours 36 minutes	Carrier
24 June 2026	4 hours 2 minutes	Carrier
30 December 2025	3 hours 52 minutes	Carrier
14 August 2026	3 hours 52 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why Delta runs late on this route

Carrier accounts for 77% of the 6,202 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
77%
National Airspace System
12%
Late-arriving aircraft
10%
Security
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 77%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,777 of the 6,202 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,202 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.79%, 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

7.4% 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 runs 82.7% on time across 505 flights, within 2 points 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. 506 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. 506 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. 502 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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