Flight number record
UA 1295
United Airlines · Los Angeles to Lihue
- Route
- LAX → LIH
- Departs
- 08:35
- Flights
- 296
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 18 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 45 minutes. That rests on 296 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1295's record is 18 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 176 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
94.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 294 completed flights
Avg delay
47 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.68%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 296 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 17 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 1295 flies
UA 1295 flies LAX to LIH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:35, used on 51 of 296 flights, with 08:40 (48 flights) and 08:25 (47 flights) next.
- Departs 08:3551 flights17.2%
- Departs 08:4048 flights16.2%
- Departs 08:2547 flights15.9%
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 08:35 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and UA 1295 runs 11 points better at 94.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
UA 1295 next to LAX to LIH
Every carrier on LAX to LIH combined arrived on time 82.9% of the time across 1,605 flights, so UA 1295 is 12 points ahead of it. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 16 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1295thin sample | 296 | 94.9% | 47 min | 0.68% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on LAX–LIH | 377 | 94.7% | 44 min | 0.80% | A+ |
| All carriers on LAX–LIH | 1,605 | 82.9% | 54 min | 0.81% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 1295 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 1295 held fairly steady: 94.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 91.7% in Jan–Mar 2026, 96.4% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 98.3% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202525 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights94.4%
- Jan–Mar 202636 flights91.7%
- Apr–Jun 202684 flights96.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights98.3%
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1295 ranged from 90.7% on Wednesday to 100.0% 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.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1295 runs when it is late
UA 1295 often beats the schedule: 166 of 294 completed flights, 56%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 15 late arrivals split 7 under half an hour, 2 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 6 an hour or more. Not one arrived two hours late.
- 15+ min early166 flights56.5%
- Within 15 min113 flights38.4%
- 15–29 min late7 flights2.4%
- 30–59 min late2 flights0.7%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights2.0%
- 2+ hours late0 flights0.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 294 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 16 of 294 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 1295
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 December 2025, 1 hour 57 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.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 December 2025 | 1 hour 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 May 2026 | 1 hour 48 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 March 2026 | 1 hour 8 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 September 2025 | 1 hour 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 September 2025 | 1 hour 3 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 1295 runs late
Carrier accounts for 61% of the 707 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 61%Carrier
- 22%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 61%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 431 of the 707 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 707 delay minutes reported on UA 1295.
Cancellations are rare at 0.68%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 three 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. 296 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: 94.9% on time and 0.68% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.