Flight number record
UA 1416
United Airlines · Los Angeles to Houston
- Route
- LAX → IAH
- Departs
- 08:50
- Flights
- 320
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1416, check with United Airlines.
UA 1416 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 14 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 320 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1416's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 135 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 315 completed flights
Avg delay
56 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
2.9%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 320 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 1416 flies
UA 1416 flies LAX to IAH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:50, used on 85 of 320 flights, with 08:15 (56 flights) and 09:00 (44 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 08:5085 flights26.6%
- Departs 08:1556 flights17.5%
- Departs 09:0044 flights13.8%
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 08:50 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and UA 1416 runs 7 points better at 91.1%. 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 1416 next to LAX to IAH
Every carrier on LAX to IAH combined arrived on time 84.6% of the time across 5,255 flights, so UA 1416 is 7 points ahead of it. United flew 3,415 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 87.1% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1416thin sample | 320 | 91.1% | 56 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on LAX–IAH | 3,415 | 87.1% | 55 min | 0.26% | A+ |
| All carriers on LAX–IAH | 5,255 | 84.6% | 64 min | 0.59% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 1416 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 1416 held fairly steady: 92.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 90.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 84.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 94.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights92.0%
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights90.9%
- Jan–Mar 202653 flights84.6%
- Apr–Jun 202687 flights94.3%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1416 did best on Wednesday at 97.7% on time and worst on Thursday at 85.1%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 1416 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 1,567 reported delay minutes.
- 37%National Airspace System
- 32%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
37% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 579 minutes out of 1,567, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 1,567 delay minutes reported on UA 1416.
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 2.9% 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.
The 1,379 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The same number turns up on five other city pairs in the data, including IAH to LAS (37), ORD to IAH (36) and IAH to ATL (17), but none flew often enough under UA 1416 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LAX to IAH only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 320 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 1416
For a booking, UA 1416 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 91.1% 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 IAH, every carrier and departure
- IAH to LAX, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 1143 on the same route87.2%
- United Airlines 2377 on the same route84.7%
- Frontier Airlines 1756 on the same route67.6%
- United Airlines 2086 on the same route84.7%
- United Airlines 491 on the same route92.9%
- Delta Air Lines 1287 on the same route84.7%
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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.