Carrier route record

AAOGG→LAX

American Airlines · Kahului to Los Angeles

Flights: 580
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 27%
Carriers: 6

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

American on OGG to LAX lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 3.4 hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 580 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 576 at 90.9% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, American's OGG to LAX record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 47 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 577 completed flights

Avg delay

205 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.52%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

80.8%

Every carrier on OGG to LAX, 2,116 flights

These figures cover 580 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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.

Carrier by carrier

American against every carrier on OGG to LAX

American flew 580 of the 2,116 flights on OGG to LAX, about 27% of it. Its 82.3% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 90.9% to Southwest at 40.0%. Three 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; Delta Air Lines manages 83.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 506 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 (this page)	580	82.3%	205 min	0.52%	B+
Alaska Airlinesthin 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 Delta by 7 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.

Flight by flight

American flight numbers on OGG to LAX

AA 25414:4679.9% · 365 flights

Departure window

When American 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 580 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm195 flights81.4%
2pm–5pm170 flights78.2%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am215 flights86.4%

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The overnight block holds up unusually well at 86.4% on time across 215 flights. Red-eyes fly into empty airspace and empty gates, and they are the first rotation of the aircraft's day rather than the last. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 215 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

American on OGG to LAX through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.February best, March worst

Delays peak in March, when the on-time rate falls to 52.7%. February is the strongest month at 90.7%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 38 points. May was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 89.3% on time and Friday the weakest at 77.1%. 12 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why American runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 55% of the 21,000 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
55%
Late-arriving aircraft
38%
National Airspace System
6%
Extreme weather
1%

38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 21,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 38 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 20,861 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 55%, 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 11,000 of the 21,000 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.52%, 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

7.5% 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 3.4 hours, 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 runs 81.3% on time across 580 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. 580 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 American on OGG to LAX

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 580 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 82.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 577 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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