Carrier route record
UALAX→OGG
United Airlines · Los Angeles to Kahului
- Flights
- 581
- 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 United Airlines.
United on LAX to OGG earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 30 minutes. That rests on 581 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 506 at 84.7% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, United's LAX to OGG record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 92 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 577 completed flights
Avg delay
30 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.52%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
81.6%
Every carrier on LAX to OGG, 2,170 flights
These figures cover 581 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
United against every carrier on LAX to OGG
United flew 581 of the 2,170 flights on LAX to OGG, about 27% of it. Its 86.5% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 81.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first 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. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 84.7% 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 (this page) | 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 | 580 | 78.9% | 77 min | 0.17% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines | 376 | 73.9% | 45 min | 1.06% | C |
Delta leads Alaska by 11 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.
Flight by flight
United flight numbers on LAX to OGG
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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 31 points, against 11 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am365 flights92.9%
- 11am–2pm92 flights93.3%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm124 flights62.6%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 62.6% on time, against 93.3% for the 11am–2pm slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 365 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on LAX to OGG through the year
August is the worst month at 67.6% on time, 32 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, Thursday is the strongest day at 89.4% on time and Monday the weakest at 81.4%, a spread of 8 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on LAX to OGG runs when it is late
United on LAX to OGG often beats the schedule: 209 of 577 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 57 of the 78 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 8 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early209 flights36.2%
- Within 15 min290 flights50.3%
- 15–29 min late57 flights9.9%
- 30–59 min late13 flights2.3%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights1.2%
- 2+ hours late1 flights0.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 577 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 49 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 15 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 44 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 United on LAX to OGG
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 May 2026, 2 hours 9 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 May 2026 | 2 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 August 2026 | 1 hour 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 January 2026 | 1 hour 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 June 2026 | 1 hour 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 June 2026 | 1 hour 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 43% of the 2,371 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%National Airspace System
- 35%Carrier
- 21%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 838 of the 2,371 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,371 reported delay minutes.
43% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,029 minutes out of 2,371, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations are rare at 0.52%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.4% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 91.5% on time across 581 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 581 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. 581 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 86.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 577 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 OGG82.6%
- American Airlines on LAX to OGG78.9%
- Alaska Airlines on LAX to OGG73.9%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Kahului Airport (OGG) delay statistics
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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.