Carrier route record
DLOGG→LAX
Delta Air Lines · Kahului to Los Angeles
- Flights
- 505
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 23%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Delta Air Lines.
Delta 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 an hour on average. That rests on 505 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 497 completed flights
Avg delay
66 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.39%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.5%
Every carrier on OGG to LAX, 2,169 flights
These figures cover 505 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
Delta against every carrier on OGG to LAX
Delta flew 505 of the 2,169 flights on OGG to LAX, about 23% 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 three 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 | 580 | 82.7% | 179 min | 0.52% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines (this page) | 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.
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Departure window
When Delta 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 505 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm262 flights79.4%
- 2pm–5pm103 flights82.5%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am140 flights89.1%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. 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 79.4% on time against 89.1% for 8pm–5am. 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 262 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Delta on OGG to LAX through the year
January is the weak month at 66.7% on time, against 93.5% in May. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. May was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 85.9% on time and Monday the weakest at 78.1%, a spread of 8 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Delta on OGG to LAX runs when it is late
Delta on OGG to LAX often beats the schedule: 197 of 497 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 86 late arrivals split 34 under half an hour, 21 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 31 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early197 flights39.6%
- Within 15 min214 flights43.1%
- 15–29 min late34 flights6.8%
- 30–59 min late21 flights4.2%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights2.8%
- 2+ hours late17 flights3.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 497 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 64 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 7 made it up before arrival. 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 Delta on OGG to LAX
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 March 2026, 4 hours 22 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2026 | 4 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 August 2026 | 4 hours 3 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 July 2026 | 3 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 December 2025 | 3 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 August 2026 | 3 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Delta runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 5,704 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 60%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
60% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,704 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 60 to one. The split is drawn from 5,704 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.39% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.20%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.2% 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 an hour, 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 84.7% on time across 506 flights, within 2 points 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. 505 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 Delta on OGG to LAX
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 505 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. 497 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- OGG to LAX, every carrier
- Delta on LAX to OGG, the return leg
- United Airlines on OGG to LAX91.5%
- American Airlines on OGG to LAX82.7%
- Alaska Airlines on OGG to LAX63.2%
- Hawaiian Airlines on OGG to LAX62.8%
- Delta Air Lines 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.