Flight number record

UA 1385

United Airlines · Washington to Los Angeles

Route: IAD → LAX
Departs: 22:05
Flights: 324
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1385, check with United Airlines.

UA 1385 lands a B+, 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 45 minutes on average. That rests on 324 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 1385's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 66 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 322 completed flights

Avg delay

46 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.62%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

4.7%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 324 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 1385 flies

UA 1385 flies IAD to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:05, used on 144 of 324 flights, with 22:20 (86 flights) and 22:08 (52 flights) next.

Departs 22:05144 flights44.4%
Departs 22:2086 flights26.5%
Departs 22:0852 flights16.0%

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 22:05 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and UA 1385 runs 14 points better at 83.9%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

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Against the route

UA 1385 next to IAD to LAX

Every carrier on IAD to LAX combined arrived on time 84.1% of the time across 2,460 flights, so UA 1385 is about level with it. United flew 2,340 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.6% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 5 points.

UA 1385 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 1385thin sample	324	83.9%	46 min	0.62%	B+
All United Airlines on IAD–LAX	2,340	84.6%	61 min	0.77%	B+
All carriers on IAD–LAX	2,460	84.1%	60 min	0.73%	B+
United Airlines, whole network	830,825	78.8%	73 min	1.02%	B

Across the year

UA 1385 quarter by quarter

UA 1385 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 75.5%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 65 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 flights90.0%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights89.0%
Jan–Mar 202671 flights90.0%
Apr–Jun 202683 flights75.6%
Jul–Sep 202649 flights75.5%

Scale runs 65% to 95%.

By weekday, UA 1385 did best on Friday at 94.2% on time and worst on Saturday at 79.1%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late UA 1385 runs when it is late

UA 1385 often beats the schedule: 124 of 322 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 27 of the 52 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 15 reached an hour or more.

15+ min early124 flights38.5%
Within 15 min146 flights45.3%
15–29 min late27 flights8.4%
30–59 min late10 flights3.1%
1–2 hours late12 flights3.7%
2+ hours late3 flights0.9%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 322 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

A late pushback is often recovered here: of 51 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 19 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 20 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 LAX.

The worst days

Worst days for UA 1385

The latest arrival of the period was on 18 July 2026, 2 hours 23 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.

The latest arrivals of UA 1385 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
18 July 2026	2 hours 23 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
21 July 2026	2 hours 21 minutes	Carrier
26 January 2026	2 hours 10 minutes	Carrier
6 July 2026	1 hour 54 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
27 August 2026	1 hour 43 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why UA 1385 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 2,381 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
38%
Late-arriving aircraft
33%
National Airspace System
23%
Extreme weather
6%

The largest share of delay minutes, 38%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 903 of the 2,381 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,381 delay minutes reported on UA 1385.

Cancellations are rare at 0.62%, 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 4.7% 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 2,288 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 FLL to IAD (25), JAX to IAD (24) and PIT to IAD (20), but none flew often enough under UA 1385 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IAD to LAX only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 324 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 1385

For a booking, read UA 1385 as 83.9% on time with 0.62% cancelled over 324 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.

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