Carrier route record
UALAX→OGG
United Airlines · Los Angeles to Kahului
- Flights
- 576
- 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 United Airlines.
United on LAX to OGG earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 40 minutes. That rests on 576 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 507 at 84.7% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, United's LAX to OGG record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 114 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 571 completed flights
Avg delay
41 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.52%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
83.9%
Every carrier on LAX to OGG, 2,117 flights
These figures cover 576 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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
United against every carrier on LAX to OGG
United flew 576 of the 2,117 flights on LAX to OGG, about 27% of it. Its 89.0% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 83.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first 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: 3 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 (this page) | 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 Airlinesthin sample | 265 | 77.5% | 45 min | 0.75% | B+ |
No carrier stands out. Delta tops the table at 84.7%, 3 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
Flight by flight
United flight numbers on LAX to OGG
Departure window
When United runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 10 points, against 3 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am414 flights91.0%
- 11am–2pm51 flights89.8%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm111 flights80.9%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 91.0% of the time, against 80.9% for the evening window. That is 10 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 414 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on LAX to OGG through the year
June is the worst month at 75.4% on time, 25 points below November, the best at 100.0%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. July was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 94.4% on time and Monday the weakest at 84.5%. 10 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 48% of the 2,550 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.
- 48%Carrier
- 29%National Airspace System
- 23%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 48%, 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 1,214 of the 2,550 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,550 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.52%, 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 1.8% 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 runs 90.9% on time across 576 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. 576 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 United on LAX to OGG
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 576 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 89.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 571 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to OGG, every carrier
- United on OGG to LAX, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on LAX to OGG84.7%
- Hawaiian Airlines on LAX to OGG83.6%
- American Airlines on LAX to OGG81.3%
- Alaska Airlines on LAX to OGG77.5%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
- 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.