Flight number record

UA 1260

United Airlines · San Francisco to Los Angeles

Route: SFO → LAX
Departs: 07:25
Flights: 271
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1260, check with United Airlines.

UA 1260 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 50 minutes. That rests on 271 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 1260's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 110 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 271 completed flights

Avg delay

49 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

1.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 271 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 1260 flies

UA 1260 flies SFO to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:25, used on 194 of 271 flights, with 07:15 (68 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:25194 flights71.6%
Departs 07:1568 flights25.1%

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 07:25 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 1260 runs level with that at 88.6%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

UA 1260 next to SFO to LAX

Every carrier on SFO to LAX combined arrived on time 73.9% of the time across 11,015 flights, so UA 1260 is 15 points ahead of it. United flew 3,263 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.4% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 10 points.

UA 1260 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 1260thin sample	271	88.6%	49 min	0.00%	A+
All United Airlines on SFO–LAX	3,263	78.4%	49 min	0.28%	B+
All carriers on SFO–LAX	11,015	73.9%	60 min	0.84%	C+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 1260 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter UA 1260 held fairly steady: 88.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 85.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 93.6% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202580 flights88.8%
Oct–Dec 202554 flights85.2%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.8%
Apr–Jun 202647 flights93.6%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 1260 did best on Wednesday at 97.4% on time and worst on Saturday at 77.8%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 1260 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 1,526 reported delay minutes.

National Airspace System
40%
Late-arriving aircraft
37%
Carrier
22%

37% 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 1,526 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 37 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 1,526 delay minutes reported on UA 1260.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are 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 1.8% 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.

The same number turns up on six other city pairs in the data, including LAX to DEN (170), SFO to HNL (41) and DEN to RSW (36), but none flew often enough under UA 1260 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SFO to LAX only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 271 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 1260

For a booking, UA 1260 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 88.6% on time and 0.00% 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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