Lihue, Kauai to Oakland nonstop
Yes: Southwest and Alaska fly direct from Lihue, Kauai (LIH) to Oakland (OAK) about 11 times a week, year-round.
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Lihue, Kauai to Oakland in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 2,456 miles nonstop, about 5 hr 35 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year: busiest in September 2025 (14 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (8 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 14 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 14 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 9 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 11 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 8 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 12 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 14 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 14 flights a week
- May 2026: 14 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 14 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 14 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 11 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Southwest 62%, Alaska 38% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 1,397 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $200 and $375 one way, median $250. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $225 one way, middle half $200 to $325, 1,771 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $200 one way, middle half $150 to $375, 1,620 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $225 one way, middle half $175 to $350, 1,304 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $250 one way, middle half $200 to $375, 1,397 tickets
Oct to Dec trips were the cheapest (median $200 one way) and Apr to Jun trips cost the most (median $250), in the DOT ticket survey for Q3 2024 to Q2 2025. Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Oakland to Lihue, Kauai nonstop.
Also nonstop from Lihue, Kauai (LIH)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Honolulu (HNL) about 21 times a day
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 5 times a day
- Kahului (OGG) about 4 times a day
- San Francisco (SFO) about 3 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 3 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 7 times a week
- Portland (PDX) about 7 times a week
- Kona (KOA) about 7 times a week
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