Lihue Airport in April 2025

87.3%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 April 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,268 domestic departures from Lihue Airport (LIH). 87.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.5% reached their destination on time; 0.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.6% of flights departed on time and 79.5% arrived on time, so LIH departures were 6.7 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in April 2024, the airport had 1,290 departures with 87.0% leaving on time: a change of +0.3 points, with flights down 2%.

Flights arriving at LIH that month were on time 88.1% of the time (1,268 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 49%, air carrier 40% and national aviation system 6%.

On time 84.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.5%
Cancelled 0.9%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Apr 2025	Apr 2024	LIH, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Apr 2025
Departed on time	87.3%	87.0%	84.8%	80.6%
Arrived on time	84.5%	88.0%	83.7%	79.5%
Cancelled	0.9%	1.6%	1.1%	0.8%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	6.2 min	7.9 min	8.8 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	42	43	43	19,465
Scheduled departures	1,268	1,290	15,814	583,950

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
HA Hawaiian Airlines	698	55%	78.8%	6.6 min	1.1%
WN Southwest Airlines	244	19%	94.7%	-8.8 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	105	8%	81.0%	2.0 min	1.9%
UA United Airlines	101	8%	97.0%	-12.6 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	60	5%	90.0%	-0.8 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	60	5%	88.3%	-6.9 min	3.3%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LIH–HNL	Lihue to Honolulu	655	84.3%	1.5 min	1.2%
LIH–OGG	Lihue to Kahului	119	84.9%	4.0 min	0.0%
LIH–LAX	Lihue to Los Angeles	112	75.9%	4.9 min	1.8%
LIH–SEA	Lihue to Seattle	90	86.7%	-6.5 min	2.2%
LIH–OAK	Lihue to Oakland	60	81.7%	3.4 min	0.0%
LIH–SFO	Lihue to San Francisco	46	100.0%	-11.5 min	0.0%
LIH–DEN	Lihue to Denver	34	97.1%	-19.5 min	0.0%
LIH–KOA	Lihue to Kona	30	80.0%	2.8 min	0.0%
LIH–LAS	Lihue to Las Vegas	30	90.0%	-3.9 min	0.0%
LIH–PHX	Lihue to Phoenix	30	96.7%	-8.3 min	0.0%
LIH–SAN	Lihue to San Diego	30	86.7%	5.2 min	0.0%
LIH–SMF	Lihue to Sacramento	17	64.7%	20.5 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), April 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Apr 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	39.9%	32.7%	2,906
Late-arriving aircraft	48.9%	39.4%	3,565
National Aviation System	5.5%	22.2%	400
Extreme weather	5.1%	5.5%	372
Security	0.5%	0.2%	40

7,283 delay minutes on 184 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 April 2025?

87.3% of 1,268 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.6% and 79.5%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In April 2024, 87.0% of 1,290 departures left on time and 1.6% were cancelled, against 87.3% and 0.9% in April 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for April 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.