Flight number record
UA 1116
United Airlines · San Francisco to Austin
- Route
- SFO → AUS
- Departs
- 13:05
- Flights
- 308
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1116, check with United Airlines.
UA 1116 lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 55 minutes on average. That rests on 308 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
81.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 306 completed flights
Avg delay
53 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.32%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 308 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 1116 flies
UA 1116 flies SFO to AUS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:05, used on 95 of 308 flights, with 13:20 (65 flights) and 12:55 (57 flights) next.
- Departs 13:0595 flights30.8%
- Departs 13:2065 flights21.1%
- Departs 12:5557 flights18.5%
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 13:05 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and UA 1116 runs 3 points better at 81.0%. 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 1116 next to SFO to AUS
Every carrier on SFO to AUS combined arrived on time 71.8% of the time across 2,786 flights, so UA 1116 is 9 points ahead of it. United flew 1,637 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.6% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1116thin sample | 308 | 81.0% | 53 min | 0.32% | B+ |
| All United Airlines on SFO–AUS | 1,637 | 79.6% | 53 min | 0.37% | B+ |
| All carriers on SFO–AUS | 2,786 | 71.8% | 65 min | 0.47% | C+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 1116 quarter by quarter
UA 1116 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 88.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 70.7%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 77 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.
- Jul–Sep 20255 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights83.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights88.8%
- Apr–Jun 202684 flights74.7%
- Jul–Sep 202641 flights70.7%
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1116 did best on Saturday at 88.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 72.7%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1116 runs when it is late
The 58 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 22 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 15 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early59 flights19.3%
- Within 15 min189 flights61.8%
- 15–29 min late21 flights6.9%
- 30–59 min late22 flights7.2%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.9%
- 2+ hours late3 flights1.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 306 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 58 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 1116
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 May 2026, 4 hours 15 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 28 May 2026 | 4 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 January 2026 | 3 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 July 2026 | 3 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 May 2026 | 1 hour 56 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 January 2026 | 1 hour 46 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why UA 1116 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 3,085 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%National Airspace System
- 26%Carrier
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,085 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 47 to one. The split is drawn from 3,085 delay minutes reported on UA 1116.
Cancellations are rare at 0.32%, 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 4.9% 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 1,504 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 six other city pairs in the data, including ORD to SFO (156), SEA to SFO (37) and MSP to SFO (37), but none flew often enough under UA 1116 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SFO to AUS only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 308 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 1116
For a booking, read UA 1116 as 81.0% on time with 0.32% cancelled over 308 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.