Flight number record
UA 1295
United Airlines · Los Angeles to Lihue
- Route
- LAX → LIH
- Departs
- 09:00
- Flights
- 294
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1295, check with United Airlines.
UA 1295 earns an A+. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 16 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 45 minutes. That rests on 294 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1295's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 163 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
93.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 294 completed flights
Avg delay
43 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
2.0%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 294 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 16 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 1295 flies
UA 1295 flies LAX to LIH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:00, used on 76 of 294 flights, with 08:40 (48 flights) and 08:25 (47 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 09:0076 flights25.9%
- Departs 08:4048 flights16.3%
- Departs 08:2547 flights16.0%
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 09:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and UA 1295 runs 10 points better at 93.9%. 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 1295 next to LAX to LIH
Every carrier on LAX to LIH combined arrived on time 84.1% of the time across 1,539 flights, so UA 1295 is 10 points ahead of it. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 15 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1295thin sample | 294 | 93.9% | 43 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on LAX–LIH | 379 | 92.6% | 47 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All carriers on LAX–LIH | 1,539 | 84.1% | 55 min | 0.39% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 1295 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 1295 held fairly steady: 91.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 94.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 91.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 96.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202585 flights91.8%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights94.4%
- Jan–Mar 202636 flights91.7%
- Apr–Jun 202684 flights96.4%
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1295 ranged from 88.4% on Wednesday to 97.7% on Friday. With about 42 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why UA 1295 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 53% of the 782 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.
- 53%Carrier
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 53%, 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 417 of the 782 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 782 delay minutes reported on UA 1295.
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 2.0% 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 2,615 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 four other city pairs in the data, including AUS to DEN (31), BNA to SFO (18) and BUR to DEN (4), but none flew often enough under UA 1295 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LAX to LIH only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 294 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 1295
For a booking, UA 1295 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 93.9% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to LIH, every carrier and departure
- LIH to LAX, the return direction
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- American Airlines 119 on the same route79.5%
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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.