Flight number record
UA 1416
United Airlines · Los Angeles to Houston
- Route
- LAX → IAH
- Departs
- 08:15
- Flights
- 320
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 15 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 320 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1416's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 145 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 319 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 320 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 1416 flies
UA 1416 flies LAX to IAH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:15, used on 77 of 320 flights, with 08:10 (71 flights) and 09:00 (44 flights) next.
- Departs 08:1577 flights24.1%
- Departs 08:1071 flights22.2%
- Departs 09:0044 flights13.8%
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 08:15 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and UA 1416 runs 8 points better at 91.8%. 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 1416 next to LAX to IAH
Every carrier on LAX to IAH combined arrived on time 84.6% of the time across 5,143 flights, so UA 1416 is 7 points ahead of it. United flew 3,420 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 87.4% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1416thin sample | 320 | 91.8% | 55 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on LAX–IAH | 3,420 | 87.4% | 52 min | 0.18% | A+ |
| All carriers on LAX–IAH | 5,143 | 84.6% | 61 min | 0.47% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 1416 quarter by quarter
UA 1416 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 84.6%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 64 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 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights90.9%
- Jan–Mar 202653 flights84.6%
- Apr–Jun 202687 flights94.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.5%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 1416 ranged from 87.2% on Saturday to 95.7% on Friday. With about 46 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 1416 runs when it is late
UA 1416 often beats the schedule: 117 of 319 completed flights, 37%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 26 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early117 flights36.7%
- Within 15 min176 flights55.2%
- 15–29 min late10 flights3.1%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.5%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.9%
- 2+ hours late2 flights0.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 319 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 17 of 319 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 1416
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 March 2026, 3 hours 55 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 March 2026 | 3 hours 55 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 13 June 2026 | 2 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 August 2026 | 1 hour 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 October 2025 | 1 hour 35 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 December 2025 | 1 hour 30 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why UA 1416 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 43% of the 1,439 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%National Airspace System
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Carrier
43% 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 618 minutes out of 1,439, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 1,439 delay minutes reported on UA 1416.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% 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 2.5% 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.
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.
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: 91.8% 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 route85.6%
- United Airlines 2377 on the same route85.9%
- Frontier Airlines 1756 on the same route70.2%
- United Airlines 491 on the same route90.5%
- Delta Air Lines 1287 on the same route83.9%
- United Airlines 2086 on the same route85.8%
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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.