Flight number record

UA 1385

United Airlines · Washington to Los Angeles

Route: IAD → LAX
Departs: 22:05
Flights: 337
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

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

UA 1385 lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 40 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 337 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 1385's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 51 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 335 completed flights

Avg delay

41 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.59%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 337 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 1385 flies

UA 1385 flies IAD to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:05, used on 164 of 337 flights, with 22:08 (52 flights) and 22:20 (46 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 22:05164 flights48.7%
Departs 22:0852 flights15.4%
Departs 22:2046 flights13.6%

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 22:05 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and UA 1385 runs 12 points better at 82.7%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

UA 1385 next to IAD to LAX

Every carrier on IAD to LAX combined arrived on time 81.8% of the time across 2,454 flights, so UA 1385 is about level with it. United flew 2,320 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.1% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 4 points.

UA 1385 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 1385thin sample	337	82.7%	41 min	0.59%	B+
All United Airlines on IAD–LAX	2,320	83.1%	63 min	0.99%	B+
All carriers on IAD–LAX	2,454	81.8%	63 min	0.94%	B+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 1385 quarter by quarter

UA 1385 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 75.6%, a swing of 14 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 202592 flights77.2%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights89.0%
Jan–Mar 202671 flights90.0%
Apr–Jun 202683 flights75.6%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 1385 did best on Friday at 90.4% on time and worst on Saturday at 76.6%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 1385 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 45% of the 2,366 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.

Carrier
45%
Late-arriving aircraft
26%
National Airspace System
26%
Extreme weather
3%

The largest share of delay minutes, 45%, 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 1,056 of the 2,366 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,366 delay minutes reported on UA 1385.

Cancellations are rare at 0.59%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.9% 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 2,288 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 SFO to IAD (49), FLL to IAD (25) and JAX to IAD (24), 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. 337 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 82.7% on time with 0.59% cancelled over 337 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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