Carrier route record
ASOGG→LIH
Alaska Airlines · Kahului to Lihue
- Flights
- 729
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 50%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Alaska Airlines.
Alaska on OGG to LIH sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land roughly 45 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 729 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 365 at 84.9% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so Alaska on OGG to LIH runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 89 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
68.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 725 completed flights
Avg delay
44 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.27%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.9%
Every carrier on OGG to LIH, 1,460 flights
These figures cover 729 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
Alaska against every carrier on OGG to LIH
Alaska flew 729 of the 1,460 flights on OGG to LIH, about 50% of it. Its 68.4% on time is 7 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 74.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 84.9% to Alaska at 68.4%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 84.9% of the time; Hawaiian Airlines manages 77.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 366 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 365 | 84.9% | 45 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Hawaiian Airlines | 366 | 77.8% | 35 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines (this page) | 729 | 68.4% | 44 min | 0.27% | C+ |
Southwest leads Hawaiian by 7 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.
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Departure window
When Alaska 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 729 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm299 flights70.8%
- 2pm–5pm430 flights66.7%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 70.8% on time. The full set of windows spans 4 points.
Across the year
Alaska on OGG to LIH through the year
Delays peak in March, when the on-time rate falls to 51.6%. July is the strongest month at 83.9%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 32 points. January was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 79.2% on time and Friday the weakest at 56.2%, a spread of 23 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Alaska on OGG to LIH runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 125 of the 229 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 41 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early3 flights0.4%
- Within 15 min493 flights68.0%
- 15–29 min late125 flights17.2%
- 30–59 min late63 flights8.7%
- 1–2 hours late26 flights3.6%
- 2+ hours late15 flights2.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 725 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 204 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 17 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 42 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 LIH.
The worst days
Worst days for Alaska on OGG to LIH
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 March 2026, 6 hours 56 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. Four of the five worst days fell in March 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 March 2026 | 6 hours 56 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 13 March 2026 | 4 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 February 2026 | 3 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 March 2026 | 3 hours 1 minute | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 March 2026 | 2 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why Alaska runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 68% of the 10,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 68%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%Carrier
- 8%Extreme weather
- 4%National Airspace System
68% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 10,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 10,046 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, 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
5.7% 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 roughly 45 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 202 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 77.5% on time across 729 flights, 9 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 9 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 729 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 Alaska on OGG to LIH
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 729 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 68.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 725 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- OGG to LIH, every carrier
- Alaska on LIH to OGG, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on OGG to LIH84.9%
- Hawaiian Airlines on OGG to LIH77.8%
- Alaska Airlines network-wide record
- Kahului Airport (OGG) delay statistics
- Hawaii inter-island flights: how reliable is island hopping?
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.