Flight number record
UA 2431
United Airlines · Houston to Los Angeles
- Route
- IAH → LAX
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 323
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2431, check with United Airlines.
UA 2431 earns an A+. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 19 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 55 minutes. That rests on 323 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2431's record is 19 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 187 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
96.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 321 completed flights
Avg delay
53 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.62%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
1.2%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 323 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 2431 flies
UA 2431 flies IAH to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 236 of 323 flights, with 06:05 (49 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:00236 flights73.1%
- Departs 06:0549 flights15.2%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 2431 runs 7 points better at 96.3%. 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 2431 next to IAH to LAX
Every carrier on IAH to LAX combined arrived on time 83.6% of the time across 5,260 flights, so UA 2431 is 13 points ahead of it. United flew 3,416 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.4% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 17 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2431thin sample | 323 | 96.3% | 53 min | 0.62% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on IAH–LAX | 3,416 | 84.4% | 59 min | 0.32% | B+ |
| All carriers on IAH–LAX | 5,260 | 83.6% | 64 min | 0.57% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 2431 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2431 held fairly steady: 100.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 94.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 94.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 96.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights100.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights94.6%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights94.3%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights96.0%
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2431 ranged from 89.1% on Saturday to 100.0% on Wednesday. With about 46 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why UA 2431 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 80% of the 634 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.
- 80%Carrier
- 20%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 80%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 510 of the 634 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 634 delay minutes reported on UA 2431.
Cancellations are rare at 0.62%, below the national 1.81% 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 1.2% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including LAX to JAC (49), ORD to DEN (35) and SFO to PHL (6), but none flew often enough under UA 2431 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IAH to LAX only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 323 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 2431
For a booking, UA 2431 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 96.3% on time and 0.62% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- IAH to LAX, every carrier and departure
- LAX to IAH, the return direction
- United Airlines 2460 on the same route87.4%
- Delta Air Lines 1216 on the same route94.2%
- United Airlines 1743 on the same route80.5%
- United Airlines 2600 on the same route91.8%
- United Airlines 2095 on the same route73.6%
- United Airlines 469 on the same route87.0%
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.