Carrier route record
ASOGG→LIH
Alaska Airlines · Kahului to Lihue
- Flights
- 543
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 37%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Alaska Airlines.
Alaska on OGG to LIH draws a D+. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about 45 minutes behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 543 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 365 at 82.7% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Alaska on OGG to LIH runs 14 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 138 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
63.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 541 completed flights
Avg delay
44 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
73.6%
Every carrier on OGG to LIH, 1,460 flights
These figures cover 543 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
Carrier by carrier
Alaska against every carrier on OGG to LIH
Alaska flew 543 of the 1,460 flights on OGG to LIH, about 37% of it. Its 63.8% on time is 10 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 73.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 82.7% to Alaska at 63.8%.
The two carriers here are closely matched: 6 points 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 365 | 82.7% | 46 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Hawaiian Airlines | 552 | 77.1% | 39 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines (this page) | 543 | 63.8% | 44 min | 0.00% | D+ |
No carrier stands out. Southwest tops the table at 82.7%, 6 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
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 543 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm237 flights66.2%
- 2pm–5pm306 flights61.8%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 66.2% on time. The full set of windows spans 4 points.
Across the year
Alaska on OGG to LIH through the year
- Jan–Mar 2026270 flights57.6%
- Apr–Jun 2026273 flights69.9%
Scale runs 50% to 75%. 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 63.8% on time across 543 flights.
Split by quarter, Alaska on OGG to LIH logged 270 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 273 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 63.8% annual figure is the one to use.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 78.4% on time and Friday the weakest at 47.4%. 31 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Alaska runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 64% of the 8,657 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.
- 64%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Carrier
- 8%Extreme weather
- 4%National Airspace System
64% 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 8,657 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 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 8,657 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.5% 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 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 78.0% on time across 543 flights, 14 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 14 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 543 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. 543 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 63.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 541 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
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.