Carrier route record
ASLIH→OGG
Alaska Airlines · Lihue to Kahului
- Flights
- 729
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 50%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Alaska Airlines.
Alaska on LIH to OGG lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 35 minutes on average. That rests on 729 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Hawaiian Airlines, flew 366 at 86.3% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Alaska on LIH to OGG from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
77.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 724 completed flights
Avg delay
36 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.41%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
81.8%
Every carrier on LIH to OGG, 1,460 flights
These figures cover 729 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 OGG
Alaska flew 729 of the 1,460 flights on LIH to OGG, about 50% of it. Its 77.5% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 81.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Hawaiian at 86.3% to Alaska at 77.5%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaiian Airlines | 366 | 86.3% | 40 min | 0.55% | A+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 365 | 85.9% | 43 min | 0.55% | A+ |
| Alaska Airlines (this page) | 729 | 77.5% | 36 min | 0.41% | B+ |
No carrier stands out. Hawaiian tops the table at 86.3%, half a point clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
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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 37 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am326 flights90.4%
- 11am–2pm286 flights72.6%
- 2pm–5pm117 flights53.4%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 45% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 90.4% of the time, against 53.4% for the afternoon window. That is 37 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 326 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Alaska on LIH to OGG through the year
Delays peak in March, when the on-time rate falls to 63.4%. June is the strongest month at 85.6%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 22 points. January was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 83.3% on time and Friday the weakest at 69.5%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Alaska on LIH to OGG runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 99 of the 163 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 21 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early0 flights0.0%
- Within 15 min561 flights77.5%
- 15–29 min late99 flights13.7%
- 30–59 min late43 flights5.9%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights2.2%
- 2+ hours late5 flights0.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 724 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 137 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 9 made it up before arrival. 35 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Alaska on LIH to OGG
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 March 2026, 3 hours 39 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 13 March 2026 | 3 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 May 2026 | 3 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 July 2026 | 2 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 February 2026 | 2 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 April 2026 | 2 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Alaska runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 65% of the 5,923 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 65%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 4%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
65% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,923 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 28 to one. The split is drawn from 5,923 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 90.4% on time here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.41%, 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 2.9% 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 202 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 68.4% on time across 729 flights, 9 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 9 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 729 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 OGG
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 729 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 77.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 724 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LIH to OGG, every carrier
- Alaska on OGG to LIH, the return leg
- Hawaiian Airlines on LIH to OGG86.3%
- Southwest Airlines on LIH to OGG85.9%
- Alaska Airlines network-wide record
- Kahului Airport (OGG) delay statistics
- Hawaii inter-island flights: how reliable is island hopping?
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.