Flight number record
UA 1111
United Airlines · San Francisco to Lihue
- Route
- SFO → LIH
- Departs
- 08:45
- Flights
- 285
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1111, check with United Airlines.
UA 1111 earns an A+. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 16 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 50 minutes. That rests on 285 flights, with a median arrival 18 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1111's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 160 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
93.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 283 completed flights
Avg delay
50 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.70%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
1.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 285 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 18 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 1111 flies
UA 1111 flies SFO to LIH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:45, used on 61 of 285 flights, with 09:20 (53 flights) and 08:28 (32 flights) next.
- Departs 08:4561 flights21.4%
- Departs 09:2053 flights18.6%
- Departs 08:2832 flights11.2%
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Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 08:45 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and UA 1111 runs 9 points better at 93.3%. 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 1111 next to SFO to LIH
Every carrier on SFO to LIH combined arrived on time 88.3% of the time across 922 flights, so UA 1111 is 5 points ahead of it. United flew 689 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 87.7% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 15 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1111thin sample | 285 | 93.3% | 50 min | 0.70% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on SFO–LIH | 689 | 87.7% | 50 min | 0.58% | A+ |
| All carriers on SFO–LIH | 922 | 88.3% | 49 min | 0.54% | A+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 1111 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 1111 held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 90.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 96.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 92.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights90.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights96.7%
- Apr–Jun 202652 flights92.3%
- Jul–Sep 202621 flights—
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By weekday, UA 1111 ranged from 87.2% on Sunday to 97.6% on Tuesday. With about 41 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1111 runs when it is late
UA 1111 often beats the schedule: 159 of 283 completed flights, 56%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 19 late arrivals split 8 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 4 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early159 flights56.2%
- Within 15 min105 flights37.1%
- 15–29 min late8 flights2.8%
- 30–59 min late7 flights2.5%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights1.1%
- 2+ hours late1 flights0.4%
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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 1111
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 November 2025, 4 hours 8 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 6 November 2025 | 4 hours 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 September 2025 | 1 hour 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 December 2025 | 1 hour 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 January 2026 | 1 hour 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 November 2025 | 50 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why UA 1111 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 943 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 24%National Airspace System
43% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 943 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 43 to one. The split is drawn from 943 delay minutes reported on UA 1111.
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 1.4% 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.
At 2,446 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
The same number turns up on seven other city pairs in the data, including DEN to COS (41), SAN to SFO (18) and ORD to LGA (18), but none flew often enough under UA 1111 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SFO to LIH 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 1111
For a booking, UA 1111 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 93.3% on time and 0.70% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- SFO to LIH, every carrier and departure
- LIH to SFO, the return direction
- San Francisco International (SFO) 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.