LIH Kauai

How deep the LIH board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from LIH. This reads the same 13 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 8of the 13 destinations are flown by one airline
• 1destination runs less than once a day
• 3destinations have four or more departures a day
• 69.2%of the destinations name Alaska Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at LIH

Five airlines appear on the LIH board and they do not hold it evenly. Alaska Airlines is on 9 of the 13 destinations, 69.2 per cent of them, and on 4 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 43.7 of the 48.3 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Southwest Airlines on 4 destinations. 0 of the 5 airlines at LIH appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 9 of the 13 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an LIH sector is usually another Alaska Airlines aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at LIH than the destination count does.

How much of the LIH board is daily

Of the 13 destinations, 12 are flown at least once a day and 1 is not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the LIH board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.57 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: LIH to Sacramento (SMF) is 4 a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 39.7 of the 48.3 departures a day, 82.3 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic LIH is five sectors and a short tail, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests and a hand carry that is not going to one of those five is planned around a single departure time.

The way back from LIH

The desk holds the return direction for 12 of the 13 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 12 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through LIH is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

The clock at LIH

LIH keeps Pacific/Honolulu time, 14 hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 19:00 at LIH, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

Where LIH turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the United States country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with LIH already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 13 destinations above.