Flight number record
UA 1170
United Airlines · Los Angeles to Honolulu
- Route
- LAX → HNL
- Departs
- 17:10
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1170, check with United Airlines.
UA 1170 lands a B+, 2 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 close to two hours on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
79.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 363 completed flights
Avg delay
103 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.55%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When UA 1170 flies
UA 1170 flies LAX to HNL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:10, used on 164 of 365 flights, with 17:05 (103 flights) and 17:00 (53 flights) next.
- Departs 17:10164 flights44.9%
- Departs 17:05103 flights28.2%
- Departs 17:0053 flights14.5%
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 17:10 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and UA 1170 runs 11 points better at 79.3%. 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 1170 next to LAX to HNL
Every carrier on LAX to HNL combined arrived on time 76.2% of the time across 5,540 flights, so UA 1170 is 3 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 84.0% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1170 | 365 | 79.3% | 103 min | 0.55% | B+ |
| All United Airlines on LAX–HNL | 1,294 | 84.0% | 91 min | 0.31% | B+ |
| All carriers on LAX–HNL | 5,540 | 76.2% | 73 min | 0.51% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 1170 quarter by quarter
UA 1170 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 65.6%, a swing of 28 points on roughly 73 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 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights81.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights65.6%
Scale runs 55% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 1170 ranged from 73.1% on Sunday to 84.6% on Thursday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1170 runs when it is late
UA 1170 often beats the schedule: 104 of 363 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 75 late arrivals split 23 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 36 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early104 flights28.7%
- Within 15 min184 flights50.7%
- 15–29 min late23 flights6.3%
- 30–59 min late16 flights4.4%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights2.5%
- 2+ hours late27 flights7.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 363 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 87 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 27 still arrived on time. 15 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 1170
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 January 2026, 5 hours 44 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 January 2026 | 5 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 July 2026 | 5 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 April 2026 | 4 hours 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 July 2026 | 4 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 December 2025 | 4 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 1170 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 63% of the 7,735 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 63%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 5%National Airspace System
63% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 7,735 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 63 to one. The split is drawn from 7,735 delay minutes reported on UA 1170.
Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, 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
9.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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 two other city pairs in the data, including ORD to LAX (21) and BOS to ORD (12), but none flew often enough under UA 1170 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LAX to HNL only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 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 1170
For a booking, read UA 1170 as 79.3% on time with 0.55% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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- LAX to HNL, every carrier and departure
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- Delta Air Lines 480 on the same route82.2%
- American Airlines 31 on the same route81.9%
- American Airlines 143 on the same route79.9%
- United Airlines 1158 on the same route87.8%
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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.