Carrier route record
HAOGG→LAX
Hawaiian Airlines · Kahului to Los Angeles
- Flights
- 122
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 6%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Hawaiian Airlines.
Hawaiian on OGG to LAX draws a D+. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about 50 minutes behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 122 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 four carriers covered here at 91.5% on time across 581 flights.
Key figures
On time
62.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 121 completed flights
Avg delay
49 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.82%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.5%
Every carrier on OGG to LAX, 2,169 flights
These figures cover 122 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.
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Carrier by carrier
Hawaiian against every carrier on OGG to LAX
Hawaiian flew 122 of the 2,169 flights on OGG to LAX, about 6% of it. Its 62.8% on time is 18 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 80.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number five of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 91.5% to Southwest at 40.0%. One 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 | 505 | 82.7% | 66 min | 1.39% | B |
| Alaska Airlines | 376 | 63.2% | 44 min | 0.80% | D+ |
| Hawaiian Airlines (this page)thin 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 Hawaiian 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 122 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Hawaiian's OGG to LAX record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 62.8% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
Hawaiian on OGG to LAX through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights56.0%
Scale runs 50% to 90%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 62.8% on time across 122 flights.
Split by quarter, Hawaiian on OGG to LAX logged 30 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 62.8% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late Hawaiian on OGG to LAX runs when it is late
The 45 late arrivals split 19 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early7 flights5.8%
- Within 15 min69 flights57.0%
- 15–29 min late19 flights15.7%
- 30–59 min late18 flights14.9%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights2.5%
- 2+ hours late5 flights4.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 121 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 27 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 3 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 21 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 Hawaiian on OGG to LAX
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 December 2025, 3 hours 27 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in December 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 1 December 2025 | 3 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 October 2025 | 3 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 October 2025 | 2 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 December 2025 | 2 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 December 2025 | 2 hours 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Hawaiian runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 2,214 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 42%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,214 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 23 to one. The split is drawn from 2,214 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 940 of the 2,214 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, 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
6.6% 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 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 82.6% on time across 122 flights, 20 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 20 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 122 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. 122 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 62.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 121 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 LAX91.5%
- American Airlines on OGG to LAX82.7%
- Delta Air Lines on OGG to LAX82.7%
- Alaska Airlines on OGG to LAX63.2%
- Hawaiian 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.