Carrier route record
HAOGG→LIH
Hawaiian Airlines · Kahului to Lihue
- Flights
- 366
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 25%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Hawaiian Airlines.
Hawaiian on OGG to LIH lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 35 minutes on average. That rests on 366 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 365 at 84.9% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Hawaiian on OGG to LIH from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
77.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 365 completed flights
Avg delay
35 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.9%
Every carrier on OGG to LIH, 1,460 flights
These figures cover 366 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 LIH
Hawaiian flew 366 of the 1,460 flights on OGG to LIH, about 25% of it. Its 77.8% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two 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; Alaska Airlines manages 68.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 729 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 (this page) | 366 | 77.8% | 35 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Alaska Airlines | 729 | 68.4% | 44 min | 0.27% | C+ |
The spread between Southwest and Alaska is 17 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 17 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
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Departure window
When Hawaiian runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 12 points, against 17 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am61 flights86.9%
- 11am–2pm142 flights74.6%
- 2pm–5pm163 flights77.2%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 74.6% on time against 86.9% for 8am–11am. 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 163 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Hawaiian on OGG to LIH through the year
- Jul–Sep 202590 flights88.9%
- Oct–Dec 2025276 flights74.2%
Scale runs 65% to 95%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 77.8% on time across 366 flights.
Split by quarter, Hawaiian on OGG to LIH logged 90 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 276 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 77.8% annual figure is the one to use.
Across the week, Sunday is the strongest day at 88.0% on time and Saturday the weakest at 64.7%, a spread of 23 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Hawaiian on OGG to LIH runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 52 of the 81 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 10 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early9 flights2.5%
- Within 15 min275 flights75.3%
- 15–29 min late52 flights14.2%
- 30–59 min late19 flights5.2%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.6%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 365 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 63 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 LIH.
The worst days
Worst days for Hawaiian on OGG to LIH
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 October 2025, 4 hours 38 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 October 2025 | 4 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 September 2025 | 2 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 December 2025 | 2 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 December 2025 | 2 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 September 2025 | 1 hour 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Hawaiian runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 2,826 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 41%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
- 2%National Airspace System
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,826 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 30 to one. The split is drawn from 2,826 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 41%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,164 of the 2,826 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.7% 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 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 86.3% on time across 366 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. 366 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 LIH
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 366 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 77.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 365 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- OGG to LIH, every carrier
- Hawaiian on LIH to OGG, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on OGG to LIH84.9%
- Alaska Airlines on OGG to LIH68.4%
- Hawaiian 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.