Flight number record

UA 1111

United Airlines · San Francisco to Lihue

Route: SFO → LIH
Departs: 08:45
Flights: 326
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 45 minutes. That rests on 326 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 1111's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 157 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

93.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 326 completed flights

Avg delay

47 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

1.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 326 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 15 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.

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 74 of 326 flights, with 08:35 (70 flights) and 09:20 (53 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:4574 flights22.7%
Departs 08:3570 flights21.5%
Departs 09:2053 flights16.3%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

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 84.1%, 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.

Against the route

UA 1111 next to SFO to LIH

Every carrier on SFO to LIH combined arrived on time 89.6% of the time across 852 flights, so UA 1111 is 4 points ahead of it. United flew 655 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 89.6% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 14 points.

UA 1111 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 1111thin sample	326	93.3%	47 min	0.00%	A+
All United Airlines on SFO–LIH	655	89.6%	50 min	0.00%	A+
All carriers on SFO–LIH	852	89.6%	46 min	0.00%	A+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 1111 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter UA 1111 held fairly steady: 93.5% 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 202592 flights93.5%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights90.2%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights96.7%
Apr–Jun 202652 flights92.3%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 1111 ranged from 89.4% on Thursday to 97.9% on Tuesday. With about 47 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why UA 1111 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 1,026 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
39%
Carrier
38%
National Airspace System
22%

39% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 1,026 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 39 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 1,026 delay minutes reported on UA 1111.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are 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 1.2% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 IAH to SFO (32), ORD to LGA (18) and SAN to SFO (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. 326 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 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.

Where to go next

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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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