Flight number record

UA 1294

United Airlines · Denver to Palm Springs

Route: DEN → PSP
Departs: 11:15
Flights: 343
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

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

UA 1294 lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 45 minutes on average. That rests on 343 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

On time

77.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 342 completed flights

Avg delay

45 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.29%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

5.0%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 343 flights between September 2025 and August 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.

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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 234 of 343 flights, with 11:20 (37 flights) and 11:18 (37 flights) next.

Departs 11:15234 flights68.2%
Departs 11:2037 flights10.8%
Departs 11:1837 flights10.8%

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 11:15 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and UA 1294 runs level with that at 77.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

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Against the route

UA 1294 next to DEN to PSP

Every carrier on DEN to PSP combined arrived on time 76.6% of the time across 2,026 flights, so UA 1294 is about level with it. United flew 879 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.7% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, 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	343	77.5%	45 min	0.29%	B+
All United Airlines on DEN–PSP	879	78.7%	55 min	0.57%	B+
All carriers on DEN–PSP	2,026	76.6%	58 min	0.54%	B+
United Airlines, whole network	830,825	78.8%	73 min	1.02%	B

Across the year

UA 1294 quarter by quarter

UA 1294 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 83.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 71.9%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 69 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 flights83.3%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights83.7%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights71.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights72.5%
Jul–Sep 202640 flights82.5%

Scale runs 65% to 90%.

By weekday, UA 1294 did best on Friday at 89.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 63.3%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 27 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late UA 1294 runs when it is late

The 77 late arrivals split 34 under half an hour, 26 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 17 an hour or more.

15+ min early60 flights17.5%
Within 15 min205 flights59.9%
15–29 min late34 flights9.9%
30–59 min late26 flights7.6%
1–2 hours late12 flights3.5%
2+ hours late5 flights1.5%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 342 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

7 of 46 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. In the other direction, 38 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at PSP.

The worst days

Worst days for UA 1294

The latest arrival of the period was on 2 October 2025, 3 hours 56 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.

The latest arrivals of UA 1294 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
2 October 2025	3 hours 56 minutes	Carrier
13 May 2026	2 hours 28 minutes	Carrier
14 June 2026	2 hours 13 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
6 March 2026	2 hours 7 minutes	National Airspace System
4 January 2026	2 hours 4 minutes	Carrier

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 3,448 reported delay minutes.

National Airspace System
40%
Carrier
38%
Late-arriving aircraft
22%

The largest share of delay minutes, 38%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,309 of the 3,448 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,448 delay minutes reported on UA 1294.

Cancellations are rare at 0.29%, 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

5.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 45 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.

The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including EWR to ATL (21), RAP to DEN (19) and PDX to EWR (17), 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. 343 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 77.5% on time with 0.29% cancelled over 343 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

Key figures