Carrier route record
WNLIH→OGG
Southwest Airlines · Lihue to Kahului
- Flights
- 365
- 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 Southwest Airlines.
Southwest 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 roughly 45 minutes. That rests on 365 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Hawaiian Airlines, flew 366 at 86.3% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, Southwest's LIH to OGG record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 86 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 362 completed flights
Avg delay
43 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 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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
Southwest against every carrier on LIH to OGG
Southwest flew 365 of the 1,460 flights on LIH to OGG, about 25% of it. Its 85.9% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 81.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two 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. Hawaiian Airlines arrives on time 86.3% 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 | 366 | 86.3% | 40 min | 0.55% | A+ |
| Southwest Airlines (this page) | 365 | 85.9% | 43 min | 0.55% | A+ |
| Alaska Airlines | 729 | 77.5% | 36 min | 0.41% | B+ |
Hawaiian leads Alaska by 9 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.
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Departure window
When Southwest 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 365 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm91 flights92.1%
- 2pm–5pm274 flights83.9%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 92.1% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 83.9%. 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 274 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Southwest on LIH to OGG through the year
Delays peak in April, when the on-time rate falls to 70.0%. June is the strongest month at 100.0%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 30 points. January was the busiest month here, with 31 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 92.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 76.5%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Southwest on LIH to OGG runs when it is late
Southwest on LIH to OGG often beats the schedule: 94 of 362 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 51 late arrivals split 20 under half an hour, 22 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 9 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early94 flights26.0%
- Within 15 min217 flights59.9%
- 15–29 min late20 flights5.5%
- 30–59 min late22 flights6.1%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights1.9%
- 2+ hours late2 flights0.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 362 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 48 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Southwest on LIH to OGG
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 January 2026, 2 hours 59 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 4 January 2026 | 2 hours 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 March 2026 | 2 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 December 2025 | 1 hour 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 January 2026 | 1 hour 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 July 2026 | 1 hour 30 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why Southwest runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 64% of the 2,208 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 64%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Carrier
- 15%National Airspace System
64% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,208 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 64 to one. The split is drawn from 2,208 reported delay minutes.
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 2.5% 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 84.9% on time across 365 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 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 Southwest on LIH to OGG
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 365 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 85.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 362 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LIH to OGG, every carrier
- Southwest on OGG to LIH, the return leg
- Hawaiian Airlines on LIH to OGG86.3%
- Alaska Airlines on LIH to OGG77.5%
- Southwest 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.