HNL to LIH flight delays
Honolulu, HI (HNL) Lihue, HI (LIH) · 102 miles
627 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
86.36%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
1.59%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
30 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
6 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. Southwest Airlines arrived on time 7.9 points more often than Alaska Airlines over the same period on the same route — same airports, same weather, same air traffic control. A gap that survives all of that is about how the two airlines are run.
Flights from Honolulu to Lihue keep to schedule more reliably than most. On a route this punctual the day you fly matters more than the airline you pick.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, Southwest Airlines arrived on time most often on HNL to LIH. Alaska Airlines was late most often.
Every airline on HNL to LIH
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Airlines | 481 | 84.5% | 1.87% | 29 min | B |
| Southwest Airlines | 146 | 92.41% | 0.68% | 36 min | A |
The return leg
LIH to HNL Lihue back to Honolulu 88.76% on time BOther routes from Honolulu
Common questions
Are flights from Honolulu to Lihue usually delayed?
86.36% of flights on the HNL to LIH route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 1 in every ten arrived late. That is better than the average route in this record.
Which airline is most on time from Honolulu to Lihue?
Southwest Airlines, at 92.41% on time across 146 flights. The least punctual on the route was Alaska Airlines at 84.5%.
How often are HNL to LIH flights cancelled?
1.59% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 16 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
When HNL to LIH flights are late, how late are they?
About 30 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on HNL to LIH during March 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →