Carrier route record
AAOGG→LAX
American Airlines · Kahului to Los Angeles
- Flights
- 580
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 27%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 3.0 hours on average. That rests on 580 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 581 at 91.5% on time.
United Airlines is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 91.5% on time across 581 flights.
Key figures
On time
82.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 577 completed flights
Avg delay
179 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.52%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.5%
Every carrier on OGG to LAX, 2,169 flights
These figures cover 580 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on OGG to LAX
American flew 580 of the 2,169 flights on OGG to LAX, about 27% of it. Its 82.7% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 91.5% 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 91.5% of the time; Alaska Airlines manages 63.2%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 376 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 581 | 91.5% | 61 min | 0.86% | A+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 580 | 82.7% | 179 min | 0.52% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines | 505 | 82.7% | 66 min | 1.39% | B |
| Alaska Airlines | 376 | 63.2% | 44 min | 0.80% | D+ |
| Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample | 122 | 62.8% | 49 min | 0.82% | D+ |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 5 | 40.0% | 53 min | 0.00% | F+ |
The spread between United and Alaska is 28 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 28 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on OGG to LAX
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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 flights82.0%
- 2pm–5pm170 flights78.2%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am215 flights86.9%
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The overnight block holds up unusually well at 86.9% 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
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, Wednesday is the strongest day at 87.8% on time and Saturday the weakest at 79.5%, a spread of 8 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on OGG to LAX runs when it is late
American on OGG to LAX often beats the schedule: 255 of 577 completed flights, 44%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 100 late arrivals split 36 under half an hour, 24 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 40 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early255 flights44.2%
- Within 15 min222 flights38.5%
- 15–29 min late36 flights6.2%
- 30–59 min late24 flights4.2%
- 1–2 hours late22 flights3.8%
- 2+ hours late18 flights3.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 577 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
25 of 96 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. In the other direction, 29 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at LAX.
The worst days
Worst days for American on OGG to LAX
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 October 2025, 29 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 October 2025 | 29 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 June 2026 | 26 hours | Carrier |
| 25 November 2025 | 25 hours 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 February 2026 | 25 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 May 2026 | 24 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 60% of the 18,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 60%Carrier
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 60%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 11,000 of the 18,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 17,878 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.52%, 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
6.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 3.0 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 78.9% on time across 580 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
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 82.7% 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.
Related
Where to go next
- OGG to LAX, every carrier
- American on LAX to OGG, the return leg
- United Airlines on OGG to LAX91.5%
- Delta Air Lines on OGG to LAX82.7%
- Alaska Airlines on OGG to LAX63.2%
- Hawaiian Airlines on OGG to LAX62.8%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Kahului Airport (OGG) delay statistics
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
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.