Flight number record
UA 1006
United Airlines · Los Angeles to Las Vegas
- Route
- LAX → LAS
- Departs
- 08:15
- Flights
- 285
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1006, check with United Airlines.
UA 1006 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 14 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 55 minutes. That rests on 285 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1006's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 139 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 283 completed flights
Avg delay
53 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.70%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 285 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Schedule
When UA 1006 flies
UA 1006 flies LAX to LAS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:15, used on 135 of 285 flights, with 08:20 (73 flights) next.
- Departs 08:15135 flights47.4%
- Departs 08:2073 flights25.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 08:15 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and UA 1006 runs 7 points better at 91.2%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
UA 1006 next to LAX to LAS
Every carrier on LAX to LAS combined arrived on time 75.8% of the time across 8,202 flights, so UA 1006 is 15 points ahead of it. United flew 1,574 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.1% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1006thin sample | 285 | 91.2% | 53 min | 0.70% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on LAX–LAS | 1,574 | 83.1% | 55 min | 0.51% | B+ |
| All carriers on LAX–LAS | 8,202 | 75.8% | 63 min | 0.77% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 1006 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 1006 held fairly steady: 96.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 93.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 89.8% in Jan–Mar 2026, 87.5% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 90.9% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights93.2%
- Jan–Mar 202649 flights89.8%
- Apr–Jun 202672 flights87.5%
- Jul–Sep 202644 flights90.9%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 1006 did best on Wednesday at 97.5% on time and worst on Tuesday at 85.0%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1006 runs when it is late
UA 1006 often beats the schedule: 116 of 283 completed flights, 41%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 25 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early116 flights41.0%
- Within 15 min142 flights50.2%
- 15–29 min late10 flights3.5%
- 30–59 min late7 flights2.5%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights2.1%
- 2+ hours late2 flights0.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 283 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 18 of 283 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 1006
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 November 2025, 2 hours 25 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 November 2025 | 2 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 October 2025 | 2 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 December 2025 | 1 hour 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 December 2025 | 1 hour 41 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 June 2026 | 1 hour 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 1006 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 1,316 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 28%National Airspace System
37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 1,316 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 37 to one. The split is drawn from 1,316 delay minutes reported on UA 1006.
Cancellations are rare at 0.70%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The same number turns up on six other city pairs in the data, including LAS to DEN (168), SAN to LAX (82) and ORD to BNA (55), but none flew often enough under UA 1006 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LAX to LAS only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 285 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking UA 1006
For a booking, UA 1006 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 91.2% on time and 0.70% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
- LAX to LAS, every carrier and departure
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- Delta Air Lines 2253 on the same route95.3%
- Delta Air Lines 2653 on the same route78.2%
- American Airlines 2785 on the same route72.5%
- Frontier Airlines 3292 on the same route79.2%
- United Airlines 679 on the same route79.8%
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.