Carrier route record
HALIH→OGG
Hawaiian Airlines · Lihue to Kahului
- Flights
- 366
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 25%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Hawaiian Airlines.
Hawaiian on LIH to OGG earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 40 minutes. That rests on 366 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 365 at 85.9% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, Hawaiian's LIH to OGG record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 90 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 364 completed flights
Avg delay
40 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.55%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
81.8%
Every carrier on LIH to OGG, 1,460 flights
These figures cover 366 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 OGG
Hawaiian flew 366 of the 1,460 flights on LIH to OGG, about 25% of it. Its 86.3% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 81.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Hawaiian at 86.3% to Alaska at 77.5%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 85.9% of the time; Alaska Airlines manages 77.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 729 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaiian Airlines (this page) | 366 | 86.3% | 40 min | 0.55% | A+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 365 | 85.9% | 43 min | 0.55% | A+ |
| Alaska Airlines | 729 | 77.5% | 36 min | 0.41% | B+ |
Southwest leads Alaska by 8 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 366 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am151 flights94.6%
- 11am–2pm190 flights84.7%
- 2pm–5pm25 flights—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 84.7% on time against 94.6% for 8am–11am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 190 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Hawaiian on LIH to OGG through the year
- Jul–Sep 202590 flights92.2%
- Oct–Dec 2025276 flights84.3%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 86.3% on time across 366 flights.
Split by quarter, Hawaiian on LIH to OGG logged 90 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 276 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 86.3% annual figure is the one to use.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 90.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 84.3%, a spread of 6 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Hawaiian on LIH to OGG runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 32 of the 50 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 6 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early2 flights0.5%
- Within 15 min312 flights85.7%
- 15–29 min late32 flights8.8%
- 30–59 min late12 flights3.3%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights0.8%
- 2+ hours late3 flights0.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 364 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 43 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 4 made it up before arrival. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Hawaiian on LIH to OGG
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 September 2025, 3 hours 53 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 | 3 hours 53 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 October 2025 | 3 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 October 2025 | 2 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 December 2025 | 1 hour 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 December 2025 | 1 hour 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Hawaiian runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 68% of the 1,988 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 68%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
68% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 1,988 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 68 to one. The split is drawn from 1,988 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 94.6% on time here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, 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 1.6% 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 77.8% on time across 366 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. 366 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 OGG
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 366 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 86.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 364 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LIH to OGG, every carrier
- Hawaiian on OGG to LIH, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on LIH to OGG85.9%
- Alaska Airlines on LIH to OGG77.5%
- Hawaiian 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.