Flight number record
UA 2096
United Airlines · Los Angeles to Newark
- Route
- LAX → EWR
- Departs
- 08:20
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2096, check with United Airlines.
UA 2096 earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2096's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 72 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.64%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
5.1%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 2096 flies
UA 2096 flies LAX to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:20, used on 109 of 365 flights, with 08:50 (72 flights) and 08:25 (67 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 08:20109 flights29.9%
- Departs 08:5072 flights19.7%
- Departs 08:2567 flights18.4%
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 08:20 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and UA 2096 runs level with that at 84.8%. 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 2096 next to LAX to EWR
Every carrier on LAX to EWR combined arrived on time 79.6% of the time across 4,925 flights, so UA 2096 is 5 points ahead of it. United flew 3,539 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.7% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2096 | 365 | 84.8% | 76 min | 1.64% | B |
| All United Airlines on LAX–EWR | 3,539 | 78.7% | 79 min | 1.92% | B |
| All carriers on LAX–EWR | 4,925 | 79.6% | 76 min | 2.07% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 2096 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2096 held fairly steady: 88.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 86.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 80.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 83.5% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights88.2%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights86.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.5%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2096 did best on Friday at 94.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 75.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 2096 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 4,125 reported delay minutes.
- 40%National Airspace System
- 34%Carrier
- 26%Late-arriving aircraft
40% 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 1,670 minutes out of 4,125, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,125 delay minutes reported on UA 2096.
Cancellations sit at 1.64% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.10%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 2,454 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 four other city pairs in the data, including RNO to LAX (40), PHX to LAX (31) and EWR to FLL (30), but none flew often enough under UA 2096 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LAX to EWR only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 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 2096
For a booking, read UA 2096 as 84.8% on time with 1.64% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.