Carrier route record

ASLIH→LAX

Alaska Airlines · Lihue to Los Angeles

Flights: 197
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 13%
Carriers: 6

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

Alaska on LIH to LAX draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about 45 minutes behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 197 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 365 at 91.3% on time.

Delta Air Lines is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 91.3% on time across 365 flights.

On time

67.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 194 completed flights

Avg delay

45 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.02%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

83.2%

Every carrier on LIH to LAX, 1,539 flights

These figures cover 197 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Carrier by carrier

Alaska against every carrier on LIH to LAX

Alaska flew 197 of the 1,539 flights on LIH to LAX, about 13% of it. Its 67.0% on time is 16 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 83.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number five of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 91.3% to Hawaiian at 66.3%. 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 91.3% of the time; American Airlines manages 84.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 391 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on LIH to LAX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Delta Air Lines	365	91.3%	65 min	2.19%	A
United Airlines	379	90.7%	57 min	0.26%	A+
Southwest Airlinesthin sample	23	87.0%	65 min	0.00%	A+
American Airlines	391	84.4%	92 min	0.00%	B+
Alaska Airlines (this page)thin sample	197	67.0%	45 min	1.02%	C
Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample	184	66.3%	39 min	0.00%	C+

Delta leads American by 7 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.

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 7 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm70 flights74.3%
2pm–5pm111 flights60.2%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am16 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 74.3% 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 111 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%

Scale runs 50% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 67.0% on time across 197 flights.

Split by quarter, Alaska on LIH to LAX logged 94 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 103 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 67.0% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why Alaska runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 56% of the 2,903 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
56%
Late-arriving aircraft
29%
National Airspace System
8%
Extreme weather
7%

The largest share of delay minutes, 56%, 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 1,616 of the 2,903 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,903 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 1.02% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.51%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.7% 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 about 45 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 78.4% on time across 197 flights, 11 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 11 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 197 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 Alaska on LIH to LAX

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 197 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 67.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 194 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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