Flight number record
UA 1754
United Airlines · San Francisco to Los Angeles
- Route
- SFO → LAX
- Departs
- 16:15
- Flights
- 305
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1754, check with United Airlines.
UA 1754 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 305 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so UA 1754 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 55 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 305 completed flights
Avg delay
57 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 305 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When UA 1754 flies
UA 1754 flies SFO to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:15, used on 95 of 305 flights, with 16:25 (75 flights) and 16:10 (72 flights) next.
- Departs 16:1595 flights31.1%
- Departs 16:2575 flights24.6%
- Departs 16:1072 flights23.6%
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 16:15 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and UA 1754 runs level with that at 71.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
UA 1754 next to SFO to LAX
Every carrier on SFO to LAX combined arrived on time 70.9% of the time across 11,437 flights, so UA 1754 is about level with it. United flew 3,335 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.7% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1754thin sample | 305 | 71.8% | 57 min | 0.00% | C+ |
| All United Airlines on SFO–LAX | 3,335 | 77.7% | 46 min | 0.15% | B+ |
| All carriers on SFO–LAX | 11,437 | 70.9% | 58 min | 0.82% | C+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 1754 quarter by quarter
UA 1754 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 85.9% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 60.7%, a swing of 25 points on roughly 76 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 20256 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights70.0%
- Jan–Mar 202664 flights85.9%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights70.8%
- Jul–Sep 202656 flights60.7%
Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1754 did best on Tuesday at 82.2% on time and worst on Friday at 62.2%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1754 runs when it is late
The 86 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 33 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 27 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early49 flights16.1%
- Within 15 min170 flights55.7%
- 15–29 min late26 flights8.5%
- 30–59 min late33 flights10.8%
- 1–2 hours late18 flights5.9%
- 2+ hours late9 flights3.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 305 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 84 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. In the other direction, 16 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 1754
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 May 2026, 4 hours 57 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 May 2026 | 4 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 November 2025 | 2 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 April 2026 | 2 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 December 2025 | 2 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 June 2026 | 2 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 1754 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 68% of the 4,903 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 68%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%Carrier
- 15%National Airspace System
68% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,903 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 68 to one. The split is drawn from 4,903 delay minutes reported on UA 1754.
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
8.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The same number turns up on six other city pairs in the data, including MFR to SFO (211), LAX to ORD (118) and LAX to DEN (22), but none flew often enough under UA 1754 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SFO to LAX only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 305 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
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For a booking, read UA 1754 as 71.8% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 305 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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- Delta Air Lines 2267 on the same route49.2%
- United Airlines 2179 on the same route68.5%
- Delta Air Lines 1715 on the same route56.1%
- United Airlines 1164 on the same route73.7%
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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.