Carrier route record
HALIH→LAX
Hawaiian Airlines · Lihue to Los Angeles
- Flights
- 122
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 8%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Hawaiian Airlines.
Hawaiian 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 40 minutes behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 122 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
65.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 122 completed flights
Avg delay
41 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
83.7%
Every carrier on LIH to LAX, 1,605 flights
These figures cover 122 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
Hawaiian against every carrier on LIH to LAX
Hawaiian flew 122 of the 1,605 flights on LIH to LAX, about 8% of it. Its 65.6% on time is 18 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 83.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last 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 Airlinesthin sample | 272 | 69.9% | 52 min | 0.74% | C+ |
| Hawaiian Airlines (this page)thin 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 Hawaiian 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 122 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Hawaiian's LIH to LAX record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 65.6% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
Hawaiian on LIH to LAX through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights66.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights65.2%
Scale runs 55% to 70%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 65.6% on time across 122 flights.
Split by quarter, Hawaiian on LIH to LAX logged 30 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 92 flights in Oct–Dec 2025. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 65.6% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late Hawaiian on LIH to LAX runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 22 of the 42 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 8 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early8 flights6.6%
- Within 15 min72 flights59.0%
- 15–29 min late22 flights18.0%
- 30–59 min late12 flights9.8%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights4.9%
- 2+ hours late2 flights1.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 122 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 39 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 28% of them. In the other direction, 14 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 Hawaiian on LIH to LAX
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 September 2025, 2 hours 15 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2025 | 2 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 31 October 2025 | 2 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 October 2025 | 1 hour 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 November 2025 | 1 hour 26 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 December 2025 | 1 hour 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Hawaiian runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 64% of the 1,711 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 64%Carrier
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 64%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,093 of the 1,711 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,711 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.6% 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 about 40 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 89.3% on time across 122 flights, 24 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 24 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 122 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 Hawaiian on LIH to LAX
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 122 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 65.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 122 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LIH to LAX, every carrier
- Hawaiian 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%
- Alaska Airlines on LIH to LAX69.9%
- Hawaiian Airlines network-wide record
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
- 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.