Carrier route record
UAOGG→LAX
United Airlines · Kahului to Los Angeles
- Flights
- 576
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 27%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on OGG to LAX earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 13 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 55 minutes. That rests on 576 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 506 at 83.5% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, United's OGG to LAX record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 133 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 571 completed flights
Avg delay
54 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.87%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
80.8%
Every carrier on OGG to LAX, 2,116 flights
These figures cover 576 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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
United against every carrier on OGG to LAX
United flew 576 of the 2,116 flights on OGG to LAX, about 27% of it. Its 90.9% on time is 10 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first 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 two carriers here are closely matched: about a point separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines (this page) | 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 Airlinesthin sample | 184 | 56.3% | 50 min | 0.54% | D+ |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 5 | 40.0% | 53 min | 0.00% | F+ |
No carrier stands out. Delta tops the table at 83.5%, about a point clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
Flight by flight
United flight numbers on OGG to LAX
Departure window
When United 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 576 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm239 flights91.1%
- 2pm–5pm186 flights87.6%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am151 flights94.6%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is the strongest at 94.6% on time. The full set of windows spans 7 points.
Across the year
United on OGG to LAX through the year
July is the worst month at 85.9% on time, 11 points below November, the best at 96.9%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. July was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 92.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 88.1%. 5 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 45% of the 2,808 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.
- 45%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 45%, 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 1,277 of the 2,808 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,808 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.87%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.2% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
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 89.0% on time across 576 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. 576 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 United on OGG to LAX
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 576 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 90.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 571 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- OGG to LAX, every carrier
- United on LAX to OGG, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on OGG to LAX83.5%
- American Airlines on OGG to LAX82.3%
- Alaska Airlines on OGG to LAX67.8%
- Hawaiian Airlines on OGG to LAX56.3%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
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.