Flights Lihue → San Francisco
LIH → SFO
Route overview
The flight route from Lihue to San Francisco is operated with a Boeing 757-200 and has an on-time performance rate of 85%, with an average delay of 8.9 minutes per flight. Over the course of a year, this destination airport serves approximately 50,196,094 passengers, indicating high traffic and demand for such routes.
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 Francisco (SFO) route is operated by United Airlines. Across 245 flights monitored in recent months, 86% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 7 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.82%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 23.7/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At San Francisco 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 Francisco: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Lihue (LIH) to San Francisco (SFO) heads north-east for about 3,934 km, a flight time of roughly 5h 20m.
Departures from Lihue on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 64% of LIH-SFO flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Lihue the average ATFM delay is 0.8 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)); arriving into San Francisco it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 245 tracked LIH-SFO flights, 86% left on time with an average delay of 7 min and a 0.8% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines (UA) | 74% | 10 min | 6.9% |
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Frequently asked questions about LIH-SFO
On the Lihue (LIH) -> San Francisco (SFO) route, on-time performance is 86% with an average delay of 7 minutes, based on 245 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Lihue-San Francisco is 0.82% across 245 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: United 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.
