Flights Lihue → San Diego
LIH → SAN
Route overview
The flight route from Lihue to San Diego has a 79% on-time performance rate, with an average delay of 13.1 minutes when flights are not on time. Over the past year, there have been 89 total flights on this route, serving the highly trafficked San Diego International Airport, which opened in 1928 and currently handles over 22 million passengers annually.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Lihue (LIH) → San Diego (SAN) route is operated by Alaska Airlines. Across 99 flights monitored in recent months, 77% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 15 minutes. The cancellation rate is 3.03%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 22.7/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At San Diego the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Lihue the average ATFM delay is 0.8 minutes.
Heading to San Diego: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Lihue (LIH) to San Diego (SAN) heads north-east for about 4,300 km, a flight time of roughly 5h 48m.
Departures from Lihue on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 83% of LIH-SAN flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Lihue the average ATFM delay is 0.8 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)); arriving into San Diego it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 99 tracked LIH-SAN flights, 77% left on time with an average delay of 15 min and a 3.0% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Airlines (AS) | 67% | 10 min | 11.9% |
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Frequently asked questions about LIH-SAN
On the Lihue (LIH) -> San Diego (SAN) route, on-time performance is 77% with an average delay of 15 minutes, based on 99 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Lihue-San Diego is 3.03% across 99 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Alaska Airlines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
