Carrier route record
ASLIH→LAX
Alaska Airlines · Lihue to Los Angeles
- Flights
- 272
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 17%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Alaska Airlines.
Alaska on LIH to LAX sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land roughly 50 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 272 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 365 at 91.0% on time.
Delta Air Lines is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 91.0% on time across 365 flights.
Key figures
On time
69.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 269 completed flights
Avg delay
52 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.74%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
83.7%
Every carrier on LIH to LAX, 1,605 flights
These figures cover 272 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.
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Carrier by carrier
Alaska against every carrier on LIH to LAX
Alaska flew 272 of the 1,605 flights on LIH to LAX, about 17% of it. Its 69.9% on time is 14 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 83.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number five of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 91.3% to Hawaiian at 65.6%. 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 91.0% of the time; American Airlines manages 84.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 446 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 23 | 91.3% | 28 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines | 365 | 91.0% | 67 min | 1.92% | A |
| United Airlines | 377 | 90.9% | 51 min | 0.80% | A+ |
| American Airlines | 446 | 84.7% | 110 min | 0.67% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines (this page)thin sample | 272 | 69.9% | 52 min | 0.74% | C+ |
| Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample | 122 | 65.6% | 41 min | 0.00% | C+ |
Delta leads American by 6 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.
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Departure window
When Alaska runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 14 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm132 flights74.2%
- 2pm–5pm111 flights60.2%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am29 flights—
Scale runs 50% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 74.2% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 60.2%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 132 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Alaska on LIH to LAX through the year
- Jan–Mar 202694 flights59.3%
- Apr–Jun 2026103 flights73.8%
- Jul–Sep 202675 flights77.3%
Scale runs 50% to 85%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 69.9% on time across 272 flights.
Alaska on LIH to LAX did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 77.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 59.3%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 91 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 76.5% on time and Friday the weakest at 57.1%, a spread of 19 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Alaska on LIH to LAX runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 42 of the 81 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 20 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early36 flights13.4%
- Within 15 min152 flights56.5%
- 15–29 min late42 flights15.6%
- 30–59 min late19 flights7.1%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights5.2%
- 2+ hours late6 flights2.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 269 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
20 of 77 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. In the other direction, 24 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 LAX.
The worst days
Worst days for Alaska on LIH to LAX
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 February 2026, 8 hours 7 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 February 2026 | 8 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 August 2026 | 5 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 May 2026 | 3 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 August 2026 | 2 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 August 2026 | 2 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Alaska runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 47% of the 4,176 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Carrier
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,176 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 4,176 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 47%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,980 of the 4,176 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.74%, 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 roughly 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 2,615 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 76.5% on time across 272 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 272 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
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Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 272 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 69.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 269 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LIH to LAX, every carrier
- Alaska on LAX to LIH, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on LIH to LAX91.0%
- United Airlines on LIH to LAX90.9%
- American Airlines on LIH to LAX84.7%
- Hawaiian Airlines on LIH to LAX65.6%
- Alaska Airlines network-wide record
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.