Lihue Airport in March 2025

86.9%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In March 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,355 domestic departures from Lihue Airport (LIH). 86.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 86.3% reached their destination on time; 1.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.9% of flights departed on time and 79.3% arrived on time, so LIH departures were 7.0 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in March 2024, the airport had 1,340 departures with 90.1% leaving on time: a change of −3.2 points, with flights up 1%.

Flights arriving at LIH that month were on time 86.9% of the time (1,355 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 58%, air carrier 35% and extreme weather 4%.

On time 86.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.5%
Cancelled 1.0%
Diverted 0.1%

Every scheduled departure from LIH in March 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

March 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Mar 2025	Mar 2024	LIH, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2025
Departed on time	86.9%	90.1%	84.8%	79.9%
Arrived on time	86.3%	90.6%	83.7%	79.3%
Cancelled	1.0%	0.5%	1.1%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	7.0 min	5.3 min	8.8 min	14.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	45	45	43	20,029
Scheduled departures	1,355	1,340	15,814	600,872

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
HA Hawaiian Airlines	754	56%	80.6%	7.1 min	1.9%
WN Southwest Airlines	278	21%	97.1%	-11.1 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	104	8%	94.2%	-10.3 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	95	7%	81.1%	2.1 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	62	5%	98.4%	-19.2 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	62	5%	88.7%	-12.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LIH–HNL	Lihue to Honolulu	732	85.0%	2.4 min	1.9%
LIH–OGG	Lihue to Kahului	124	90.3%	0.7 min	0.0%
LIH–LAX	Lihue to Los Angeles	117	83.8%	-5.4 min	0.0%
LIH–SEA	Lihue to Seattle	93	83.9%	-4.3 min	0.0%
LIH–OAK	Lihue to Oakland	62	93.5%	-3.6 min	0.0%
LIH–SFO	Lihue to San Francisco	48	95.8%	-9.4 min	0.0%
LIH–DEN	Lihue to Denver	36	97.2%	-15.5 min	0.0%
LIH–KOA	Lihue to Kona	31	77.4%	7.5 min	0.0%
LIH–LAS	Lihue to Las Vegas	31	90.3%	-9.6 min	0.0%
LIH–PHX	Lihue to Phoenix	31	100.0%	-15.4 min	0.0%
LIH–SMF	Lihue to Sacramento	17	58.8%	18.2 min	0.0%
LIH–SAN	Lihue to San Diego	16	81.3%	16.3 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

100

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), March 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	34.6%	33.0%	2,663
Late-arriving aircraft	57.8%	39.2%	4,455
National Aviation System	3.0%	21.9%	230
Extreme weather	4.4%	5.9%	340
Security	0.2%	0.1%	13

7,701 delay minutes on 170 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left LIH on time in March 2025?

86.9% of 1,355 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 86.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.9% and 79.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In March 2024, 90.1% of 1,340 departures left on time and 0.5% were cancelled, against 86.9% and 1.0% in March 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for March 2025; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for LIH · methodology · corrections.