Flight number record
UA 1061
United Airlines · Chicago to Austin
- Route
- ORD → AUS
- Departs
- 11:47
- Flights
- 262
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1061, check with United Airlines.
UA 1061 lands a B+, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 262 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
76.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 260 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.76%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 262 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When UA 1061 flies
UA 1061 flies ORD to AUS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:47, used on 82 of 262 flights, with 11:05 (28 flights) next.
- Departs 11:4782 flights31.3%
- Departs 11:0528 flights10.7%
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 11:47 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and UA 1061 runs level with that at 76.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
UA 1061 next to ORD to AUS
Every carrier on ORD to AUS combined arrived on time 71.9% of the time across 3,185 flights, so UA 1061 is 5 points ahead of it. United flew 1,550 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.8% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1061thin sample | 262 | 76.5% | 71 min | 0.76% | B+ |
| All United Airlines on ORD–AUS | 1,550 | 77.8% | 66 min | 1.10% | B |
| All carriers on ORD–AUS | 3,185 | 71.9% | 75 min | 1.88% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 1061 quarter by quarter
UA 1061 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 64.5%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 66 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Oct–Dec 202532 flights81.2%
- Jan–Mar 202684 flights80.7%
- Apr–Jun 202684 flights79.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights64.5%
Scale runs 55% to 85%.
By weekday, UA 1061 did best on Wednesday at 83.8% on time and worst on Friday at 64.1%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1061 runs when it is late
UA 1061 often beats the schedule: 90 of 260 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 61 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 15 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early90 flights34.6%
- Within 15 min109 flights41.9%
- 15–29 min late22 flights8.5%
- 30–59 min late15 flights5.8%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights5.4%
- 2+ hours late10 flights3.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 260 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 55 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. In the other direction, 18 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at AUS.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 1061
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 December 2025, 6 hours 30 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 December 2025 | 6 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 August 2026 | 5 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 April 2026 | 5 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 August 2026 | 3 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 January 2026 | 2 hours 56 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 1061 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 4,326 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
49% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,326 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 4,326 delay minutes reported on UA 1061.
Cancellations are rare at 0.76%, 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
9.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 977 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The same number turns up on ten other city pairs in the data, including DCA to ORD (112), PHL to DEN (55) and SFO to RNO (36), but none flew often enough under UA 1061 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ORD to AUS only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 262 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 1061
For a booking, read UA 1061 as 76.5% on time with 0.76% cancelled over 262 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to AUS, every carrier and departure
- AUS to ORD, the return direction
- United Airlines 622 on the same route78.1%
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- Austin-Bergstrom International (AUS) delay statistics
- United Airlines on-time record
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A flight number here means United Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
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.