Carrier route record
HAOGG→LAX
Hawaiian Airlines · Kahului to Los Angeles
- Flights
- 184
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 9%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Hawaiian Airlines.
Hawaiian on OGG to LAX earns a D+, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 56.3% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 21 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. Late arrivals average about 50 minutes. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 184 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.
Key figures
On time
56.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 183 completed flights
Avg delay
50 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.54%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
80.8%
Every carrier on OGG to LAX, 2,116 flights
These figures cover 184 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
Hawaiian against every carrier on OGG to LAX
Hawaiian flew 184 of the 2,116 flights on OGG to LAX, about 9% of it. Its 56.3% on time is 25 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 80.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number five 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.
| 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 Airlinesthin sample | 265 | 67.8% | 46 min | 0.38% | C+ |
| Hawaiian Airlines (this page)thin 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 Hawaiian runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 25 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–2pm50 flights38.0%
- 2pm–5pm134 flights63.2%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 30% to 70%. 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 38.0% on time against 63.2% for 2pm–5pm. 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 134 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Hawaiian on OGG to LAX through the year
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights56.5%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights56.0%
Scale runs 50% to 60%. 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 56.3% on time across 184 flights.
Split by quarter, Hawaiian on OGG to LAX logged 92 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 92 flights in Oct–Dec 2025. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 56.3% annual figure is the one to use.
Delay causes
Why Hawaiian runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 3,976 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.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 46%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
- 1%National Airspace System
52% 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 3,976 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 39 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 3,976 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 46%, 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 1,810 of the 3,976 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.54%, 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
8.7% 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 50 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 83.6% on time across 184 flights, 27 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 27 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 184 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 Hawaiian on OGG to LAX
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 184 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 56.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 183 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- OGG to LAX, every carrier
- Hawaiian on LAX to OGG, the return leg
- United Airlines on OGG to LAX90.9%
- Delta Air Lines on OGG to LAX83.5%
- American Airlines on OGG to LAX82.3%
- Alaska Airlines on OGG to LAX67.8%
- Hawaiian Airlines network-wide record
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.