Flight number record

UA 1116

United Airlines · San Francisco to Austin

Route: SFO → AUS
Departs: 13:05
Flights: 309
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 55 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 309 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

On time

81.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 306 completed flights

Avg delay

53 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.65%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 309 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

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 309 flights, with 12:55 (57 flights) and 12:32 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 13:0595 flights30.7%
Departs 12:5557 flights18.4%
Departs 12:3232 flights10.4%

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 13:05 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and UA 1116 runs 3 points better at 81.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

UA 1116 next to SFO to AUS

Every carrier on SFO to AUS combined arrived on time 74.8% of the time across 2,792 flights, so UA 1116 is 7 points ahead of it. United flew 1,653 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.7% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 2 points.

UA 1116 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 1116thin sample	309	81.4%	53 min	0.65%	B+
All United Airlines on SFO–AUS	1,653	82.7%	52 min	0.73%	B+
All carriers on SFO–AUS	2,792	74.8%	61 min	0.79%	C+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	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 Apr–Jun 2026 at 74.7%, a swing of 14 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 202547 flights76.1%
Oct–Dec 202588 flights83.0%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights88.8%
Apr–Jun 202684 flights74.7%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 1116 did best on Tuesday at 89.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 73.3%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 1116 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 2,995 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
40%
Carrier
32%
National Airspace System
29%

40% 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 2,995 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 40 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 2,995 delay minutes reported on UA 1116.

Cancellations are rare at 0.65%, below the national 1.81% 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 8.1% 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 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 seven other city pairs in the data, including ORD to SFO (94), PDX to SFO (49) and DEN to IAH (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. 309 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 81.4% on time with 0.65% cancelled over 309 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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