LIH to HNL flight delays
Lihue, HI (LIH) Honolulu, HI (HNL) · 102 miles
626 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
88.76%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
1.92%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
34 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 8.4 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 Lihue to Honolulu are among the most dependable in the record. A route this punctual is usually a short hop between airports with slots to spare.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, Southwest Airlines arrived on time most often on LIH to HNL. Alaska Airlines was late most often.
Every airline on LIH to HNL
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 | 480 | 86.78% | 2.29% | 35 min | B |
| Southwest Airlines | 146 | 95.17% | 0.68% | 23 min | A |
The return leg
HNL to LIH Honolulu back to Lihue 86.36% on time BCommon questions
Are flights from Lihue to Honolulu usually delayed?
88.76% of flights on the LIH to HNL 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 Lihue to Honolulu?
Southwest Airlines, at 95.17% on time across 146 flights. The least punctual on the route was Alaska Airlines at 86.78%.
How often are LIH to HNL flights cancelled?
1.92% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 19 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
When LIH to HNL flights are late, how late are they?
About 34 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 LIH to HNL 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 →