Flight number record

UA 1294

United Airlines · Denver to Palm Springs

Route: DEN → PSP
Departs: 11:15
Flights: 334
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1294, check with United Airlines.

UA 1294 lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 334 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

On time

77.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 333 completed flights

Avg delay

51 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.30%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 334 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 3 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 1294 flies

UA 1294 flies DEN to PSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:15, used on 225 of 334 flights, with 11:20 (37 flights) and 11:18 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:15225 flights67.4%
Departs 11:2037 flights11.1%
Departs 11:1837 flights11.1%

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 11:15 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and UA 1294 runs level with that at 77.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

UA 1294 next to DEN to PSP

Every carrier on DEN to PSP combined arrived on time 77.0% of the time across 2,035 flights, so UA 1294 is about level with it. United flew 872 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.8% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, close to this flight's figure.

UA 1294 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 1294thin sample	334	77.8%	51 min	0.30%	B+
All United Airlines on DEN–PSP	872	78.8%	55 min	0.46%	B+
All carriers on DEN–PSP	2,035	77.0%	60 min	0.44%	B+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 1294 quarter by quarter

UA 1294 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 85.2% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 71.9%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 84 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 202561 flights85.2%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights83.7%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights71.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights72.5%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 1294 did best on Friday at 89.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 64.6%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 1294 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 3,755 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
37%
National Airspace System
35%
Late-arriving aircraft
28%

The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,383 of the 3,755 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,755 delay minutes reported on UA 1294.

Cancellations are rare at 0.30%, 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

5.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 776 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including LAX to DEN (31) and RAP to DEN (19), but none flew often enough under UA 1294 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DEN to PSP only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 334 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 1294

For a booking, read UA 1294 as 77.8% on time with 0.30% cancelled over 334 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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