Flight number record
UA 2460
United Airlines · Houston to Los Angeles
- Route
- IAH → LAX
- Departs
- 12:40
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2460, check with United Airlines.
UA 2460 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 12 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 365 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2460's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 117 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 365 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 2460 flies
UA 2460 flies IAH to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:40, used on 96 of 365 flights, with 12:33 (82 flights) and 12:30 (42 flights) next.
- Departs 12:4096 flights26.3%
- Departs 12:3382 flights22.5%
- Departs 12:3042 flights11.5%
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 12:40 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and UA 2460 runs 11 points better at 89.0%. 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 2460 next to IAH to LAX
Every carrier on IAH to LAX combined arrived on time 84.1% of the time across 5,147 flights, so UA 2460 is 5 points ahead of it. United flew 3,421 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.7% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2460 | 365 | 89.0% | 75 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on IAH–LAX | 3,421 | 85.7% | 57 min | 0.20% | A+ |
| All carriers on IAH–LAX | 5,147 | 84.1% | 62 min | 0.45% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2460 quarter by quarter
UA 2460 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 81.3%, a swing of 12 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.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights92.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights91.1%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights81.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights90.3%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 2460 ranged from 84.6% on Saturday to 94.2% on Sunday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2460 runs when it is late
UA 2460 often beats the schedule: 169 of 365 completed flights, 46%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 40 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early169 flights46.3%
- Within 15 min156 flights42.7%
- 15–29 min late11 flights3.0%
- 30–59 min late13 flights3.6%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights2.7%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 365 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 45 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 14 still arrived on time. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2460
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 October 2025, 7 hours 14 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 October 2025 | 7 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 September 2025 | 5 hours 29 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 March 2026 | 2 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 March 2026 | 2 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 July 2026 | 2 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 2460 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 2,992 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Carrier
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 13%National Airspace System
- 11%Extreme weather
37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,992 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. The split is drawn from 2,992 delay minutes reported on UA 2460.
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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.4% 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.
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.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including MSP to IAH (144), OMA to IAH (21) and LAX to RNO (13), but none flew often enough under UA 2460 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. 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 2460
For a booking, UA 2460 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 89.0% on time and 0.00% 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
- Delta Air Lines 1216 on the same route93.1%
- United Airlines 1743 on the same route83.3%
- United Airlines 2600 on the same route91.3%
- United Airlines 469 on the same route89.0%
- Frontier Airlines 1755 on the same route71.9%
- United Airlines 2095 on the same route76.7%
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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.