Flight number record
UA 1941
United Airlines · Los Angeles to Chicago
- Route
- LAX → ORD
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 292
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1941, check with United Airlines.
UA 1941 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 292 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1941's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 109 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 287 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.68%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 292 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 1941 flies
UA 1941 is scheduled to leave Los Angeles (LAX) at 07:00 local time and reach Chicago (ORD) at 13:14. That slot held for 292 of the 292 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 07:00292 flights100.0%
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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 1941 runs level with that at 88.2%. 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 1941 next to LAX to ORD
Every carrier on LAX to ORD combined arrived on time 76.4% of the time across 7,119 flights, so UA 1941 is 12 points ahead of it. United flew 3,414 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.9% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1941thin sample | 292 | 88.2% | 82 min | 0.68% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on LAX–ORD | 3,414 | 79.9% | 69 min | 0.70% | B+ |
| All carriers on LAX–ORD | 7,119 | 76.4% | 84 min | 1.39% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 1941 quarter by quarter
UA 1941 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 92.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 80.6%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 73 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.
- Oct–Dec 202567 flights89.4%
- Jan–Mar 202672 flights88.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights80.6%
Scale runs 70% to 95%.
By weekday, UA 1941 did best on Thursday at 95.3% on time and worst on Sunday at 77.3%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1941 runs when it is late
The 34 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 6 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early69 flights24.0%
- Within 15 min184 flights64.1%
- 15–29 min late15 flights5.2%
- 30–59 min late6 flights2.1%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.4%
- 2+ hours late9 flights3.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 287 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 18 of 287 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 1941
The latest arrival of the period was on 21 August 2026, 9 hours 14 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across August, November, April, July and May, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 21 August 2026 | 9 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 November 2025 | 4 hours 11 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 1 April 2026 | 3 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 31 July 2026 | 3 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 31 May 2026 | 2 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why UA 1941 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 2,783 reported delay minutes.
- 35%National Airspace System
- 34%Carrier
- 32%Late-arriving aircraft
35% 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 960 minutes out of 2,783, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,783 delay minutes reported on UA 1941.
Cancellations are rare at 0.68%, below the national 1.89% 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 4.5% 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.
At 1,744 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 three other city pairs in the data, including ORD to DCA (117), ORD to CVG (24) and ORD to IAH (16), but none flew often enough under UA 1941 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LAX to ORD only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 292 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 1941
For a booking, UA 1941 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 88.2% on time and 0.68% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.