Carrier route record
DLOGG→LAX
Delta Air Lines · Kahului to Los Angeles
- Flights
- 506
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 24%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Delta Air Lines.
Delta on OGG to LAX lands a B, 6 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 an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 506 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, Delta's OGG to LAX record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 59 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 498 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.38%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
80.8%
Every carrier on OGG to LAX, 2,116 flights
These figures cover 506 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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
Delta against every carrier on OGG to LAX
Delta flew 506 of the 2,116 flights on OGG to LAX, about 24% of it. Its 83.5% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two 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; 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 576 | 90.9% | 54 min | 0.87% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines (this page) | 506 | 83.5% | 61 min | 1.38% | B |
| American Airlines | 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 American by 9 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.
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 506 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm262 flights81.7%
- 2pm–5pm103 flights82.5%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am141 flights87.7%
Scale runs 75% 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 81.7% on time against 87.7% 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 88.7% on time and Monday the weakest at 76.4%. 12 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Delta runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 4,982 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.
- 58%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
58% 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 4,982 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 58 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 4,982 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.38% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.20%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
5.8% 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 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 507 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. 506 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. 506 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 83.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 498 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 LAX90.9%
- American Airlines on OGG to LAX82.3%
- Alaska Airlines on OGG to LAX67.8%
- Hawaiian Airlines on OGG to LAX56.3%
- Delta Air Lines network-wide record
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.