Flight number record
UA 1169
United Airlines · Honolulu to Los Angeles
- Route
- HNL → LAX
- Departs
- 21:40
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1169, check with United Airlines.
UA 1169 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1169's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 128 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 363 completed flights
Avg delay
90 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.27%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 17 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 1169 flies
UA 1169 flies HNL to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:40, used on 208 of 364 flights, with 22:50 (101 flights) next.
- Departs 21:40208 flights57.1%
- Departs 22:50101 flights27.7%
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 21:40 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and UA 1169 runs 20 points better at 90.1%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
UA 1169 next to HNL to LAX
Every carrier on HNL to LAX combined arrived on time 80.3% of the time across 5,540 flights, so UA 1169 is 10 points ahead of it. United flew 1,294 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.8% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1169thin sample | 364 | 90.1% | 90 min | 0.27% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on HNL–LAX | 1,294 | 85.8% | 87 min | 0.54% | A+ |
| All carriers on HNL–LAX | 5,540 | 80.3% | 76 min | 0.58% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 1169 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 1169 held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 89.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 86.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 95.6% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 86.9% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 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 flights89.1%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights86.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights86.9%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 1169 did best on Tuesday at 98.0% on time and worst on Friday at 78.8%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1169 runs when it is late
UA 1169 often beats the schedule: 196 of 363 completed flights, 54%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 36 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early196 flights54.0%
- Within 15 min131 flights36.1%
- 15–29 min late11 flights3.0%
- 30–59 min late12 flights3.3%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.7%
- 2+ hours late7 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 363 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 48 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 20 still arrived on time. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 1169
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 August 2026, 17 hours 30 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2026 | 17 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 October 2025 | 3 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 January 2026 | 3 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 October 2025 | 3 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 July 2026 | 2 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why UA 1169 runs late
Carrier accounts for 56% of the 3,221 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Carrier
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,221 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 35 to one. The split is drawn from 3,221 delay minutes reported on UA 1169.
Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, 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 3.6% 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 2,556 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 one other city pair in the data, including DEN to MCI (1), but none flew often enough under UA 1169 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to HNL to LAX only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 364 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 1169
For a booking, UA 1169 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 90.1% on time and 0.27% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
- HNL to LAX, every carrier and departure
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- United Airlines 1157 on the same route80.4%
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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.