Flight number record

UA 1169

United Airlines · Honolulu to Los Angeles

Route: HNL → LAX
Departs: 21:40
Flights: 364
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 14 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 1169's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 139 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

91.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 363 completed flights

Avg delay

68 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.27%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

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 207 of 364 flights, with 22:50 (101 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 21:40207 flights56.9%
Departs 22:50101 flights27.7%

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 21:40 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and UA 1169 runs 21 points better at 91.5%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

UA 1169 next to HNL to LAX

Every carrier on HNL to LAX combined arrived on time 81.1% of the time across 5,458 flights, so UA 1169 is 10 points ahead of it. United flew 1,268 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 87.4% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 13 points.

UA 1169 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 1169thin sample	364	91.5%	68 min	0.27%	A+
All United Airlines on HNL–LAX	1,268	87.4%	94 min	0.47%	A+
All carriers on HNL–LAX	5,458	81.1%	77 min	0.53%	B+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 1169 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter UA 1169 held fairly steady: 94.5% in Jul–Sep 2025, 89.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 86.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 95.6% in Apr–Jun 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 202592 flights94.5%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights89.1%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights86.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%

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

By weekday, UA 1169 did best on Thursday at 96.2% on time and worst on Friday at 82.7%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 1169 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 2,100 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Late-arriving aircraft
47%
Carrier
44%
National Airspace System
9%

47% 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 2,100 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 47 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 2,100 delay minutes reported on UA 1169.

Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, 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 3.3% 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 2,556 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: 91.5% on time and 0.27% 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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