Flight number record

UA 1754

United Airlines · San Francisco to Los Angeles

Route: SFO → LAX
Departs: 16:15
Flights: 298
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 298 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 1754 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 68 extra late arrivals.

On time

70.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 298 completed flights

Avg delay

63 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

10.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 298 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

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 298 flights, with 16:10 (72 flights) and 16:13 (49 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 16:1595 flights31.9%
Departs 16:1072 flights24.2%
Departs 16:1349 flights16.4%

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 16:15 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and UA 1754 runs level with that at 70.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

UA 1754 next to SFO to LAX

Every carrier on SFO to LAX combined arrived on time 73.9% of the time across 11,015 flights, so UA 1754 is 3 points behind it. United flew 3,263 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.4% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 8 points.

UA 1754 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 1754thin sample	298	70.8%	63 min	0.00%	C+
All United Airlines on SFO–LAX	3,263	78.4%	49 min	0.28%	B+
All carriers on SFO–LAX	11,015	73.9%	60 min	0.84%	C+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	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 2025 at 54.5%, a swing of 31 points on roughly 75 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 202555 flights54.5%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights70.0%
Jan–Mar 202664 flights85.9%
Apr–Jun 202689 flights70.8%

Scale runs 45% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 1754 did best on Saturday at 78.9% on time and worst on Thursday at 61.9%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 1754 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 66% of the 5,442 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
66%
Carrier
19%
National Airspace System
15%

66% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 5,442 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 66 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 5,442 delay minutes reported on UA 1754.

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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

The same number turns up on seven other city pairs in the data, including MFR to SFO (211), LAX to ORD (83) and LAX to AUS (35), 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. 298 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 1754

For a booking, read UA 1754 as 70.8% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 298 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.

Key figures