Carrier route record
AALIH→LAX
American Airlines · Lihue to Los Angeles
- Flights
- 446
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 28%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on LIH to LAX 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 close to two hours. That rests on 446 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 365 at 91.0% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, American's LIH to LAX record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 74 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 443 completed flights
Avg delay
110 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.67%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
83.7%
Every carrier on LIH to LAX, 1,605 flights
These figures cover 446 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on LIH to LAX
American flew 446 of the 1,605 flights on LIH to LAX, about 28% of it. Its 84.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 83.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 91.3% to Hawaiian at 65.6%. Three of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The two carriers here are closely matched: half a point 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 (this page) | 446 | 84.7% | 110 min | 0.67% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlinesthin sample | 272 | 69.9% | 52 min | 0.74% | C+ |
| Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample | 122 | 65.6% | 41 min | 0.00% | C+ |
No carrier stands out. Delta tops the table at 91.0%, half a point clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on LIH to LAX
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Departure window
When American 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 446 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm160 flights84.3%
- 2pm–5pm99 flights78.8%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am187 flights88.1%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is the strongest at 88.1% on time. The full set of windows spans 9 points.
Across the year
American on LIH to LAX through the year
September is the best month on the calendar at 93.3% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. July was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 94.4% on time and Friday the weakest at 71.6%, a spread of 23 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on LIH to LAX runs when it is late
American on LIH to LAX often beats the schedule: 195 of 443 completed flights, 44%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 68 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 23 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early195 flights44.0%
- Within 15 min180 flights40.6%
- 15–29 min late21 flights4.7%
- 30–59 min late23 flights5.2%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights3.8%
- 2+ hours late7 flights1.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 443 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 77 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 25 still arrived on time. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on LIH to LAX
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 October 2025, 26 hours 10 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 October 2025 | 26 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 July 2026 | 21 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 January 2026 | 16 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 August 2026 | 4 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 July 2026 | 3 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 7,469 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Late-arriving aircraft
- 44%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
48% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 7,469 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 48 to one. The split is drawn from 7,469 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 44%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,278 of the 7,469 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.67%, 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
5.4% 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 close to two hours, 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 75.1% on time across 446 flights, 10 points below 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 10 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 446 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 American on LIH to LAX
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 446 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. 443 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LIH to LAX, every carrier
- American on LAX to LIH, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on LIH to LAX91.0%
- United Airlines on LIH to LAX90.9%
- Alaska Airlines on LIH to LAX69.9%
- Hawaiian Airlines on LIH to LAX65.6%
- American 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.