Carrier route record
UAOGG→LAX
United Airlines · Kahului to Los Angeles
- Flights
- 581
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 27%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 14 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 581 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 580 at 82.7% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, United's OGG to LAX record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 142 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 576 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.86%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.5%
Every carrier on OGG to LAX, 2,169 flights
These figures cover 581 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
United against every carrier on OGG to LAX
United flew 581 of the 2,169 flights on OGG to LAX, about 27% of it. Its 91.5% on time is 11 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first 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. American Airlines arrives on time 82.7% 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 (this page) | 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 Airlinesthin sample | 122 | 62.8% | 49 min | 0.82% | D+ |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 5 | 40.0% | 53 min | 0.00% | F+ |
The spread between American and Alaska is 20 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 20 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
Flight by flight
United flight numbers on OGG to LAX
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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 581 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm239 flights89.5%
- 2pm–5pm178 flights90.4%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am164 flights95.7%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. 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 89.5% on time against 95.7% 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 239 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on OGG to LAX through the year
January is the weak month at 86.1% on time, against 96.9% in November. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 97.3% on time and Thursday the weakest at 87.1%, a spread of 10 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on OGG to LAX runs when it is late
United on OGG to LAX often beats the schedule: 231 of 576 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 31 of the 49 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 11 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early231 flights40.1%
- Within 15 min296 flights51.4%
- 15–29 min late31 flights5.4%
- 30–59 min late7 flights1.2%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights1.6%
- 2+ hours late2 flights0.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 576 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 35 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. 23 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for United on OGG to LAX
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 July 2026, 19 hours 33 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 July 2026 | 19 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 August 2026 | 2 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 June 2026 | 1 hour 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 May 2026 | 1 hour 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 June 2026 | 1 hour 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 63% of the 2,984 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 63%Carrier
- 25%National Airspace System
- 12%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 63%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,865 of the 2,984 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,984 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.86%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 86.5% on time across 581 flights, 5 points below 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 5 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 581 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. 581 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 91.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 576 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
- American Airlines on OGG to LAX82.7%
- Delta Air Lines on OGG to LAX82.7%
- Alaska Airlines on OGG to LAX63.2%
- Hawaiian Airlines on OGG to LAX62.8%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Kahului Airport (OGG) delay statistics
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.