Carrier route record

ASOGG→LAX

Alaska Airlines · Kahului to Los Angeles

Flights: 265
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 13%
Carriers: 6

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Alaska Airlines.

Alaska on OGG to LAX draws a C+. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about 45 minutes behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 265 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 576 at 90.9% on time.

United Airlines is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 90.9% on time across 576 flights.

On time

67.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 261 completed flights

Avg delay

46 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.38%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

80.8%

Every carrier on OGG to LAX, 2,116 flights

These figures cover 265 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Carrier by carrier

Alaska against every carrier on OGG to LAX

Alaska flew 265 of the 2,116 flights on OGG to LAX, about 13% of it. Its 67.8% on time is 13 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 80.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 90.9% to Southwest at 40.0%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 90.9% of the time; American Airlines manages 82.3%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 580 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on OGG to LAX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
United Airlines	576	90.9%	54 min	0.87%	A+
Delta Air Lines	506	83.5%	61 min	1.38%	B
American Airlines	580	82.3%	205 min	0.52%	B+
Alaska Airlines (this page)thin sample	265	67.8%	46 min	0.38%	C+
Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample	184	56.3%	50 min	0.54%	D+
Southwest Airlinesthin sample	5	40.0%	53 min	0.00%	F+

United leads American by 9 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.

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 36 points, against 9 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm49 flights83.7%
2pm–5pm181 flights58.2%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am35 flights94.3%

Scale runs 50% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is the strongest at 94.3% on time. The full set of windows spans 36 points.

Across the year

Alaska on OGG to LAX through the year

Jan–Mar 2026104 flights57.4%
Apr–Jun 2026161 flights74.4%

Scale runs 50% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 67.8% on time across 265 flights.

Split by quarter, Alaska on OGG to LAX logged 104 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 161 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 67.8% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 77.8% on time and Monday the weakest at 57.9%. 20 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Alaska runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 56% of the 3,858 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
56%
Late-arriving aircraft
30%
National Airspace System
14%
Extreme weather
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 56%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,155 of the 3,858 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,858 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.38%, below the national 1.81% 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

6.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 45 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 2,485 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 77.5% on time across 265 flights, 10 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 10 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 265 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 OGG to LAX

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 265 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 67.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 261 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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