Flight number record

UA 2460

United Airlines · Houston to Los Angeles

Route: IAH → LAX
Departs: 12:40
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 10 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 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 2460's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 98 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

87.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 364 completed flights

Avg delay

82 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.27%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

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 12:00 (86 flights) and 12:30 (42 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 12:4096 flights26.3%
Departs 12:0086 flights23.6%
Departs 12:3042 flights11.5%

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 12:40 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and UA 2460 runs 9 points better at 87.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

UA 2460 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 2460 is 4 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 8 points.

UA 2460 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2460	365	87.4%	82 min	0.27%	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 2460 quarter by quarter

UA 2460 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 92.4% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 81.3%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 91 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 202592 flights84.6%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights92.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights91.1%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights81.3%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2460 ranged from 82.7% on Saturday to 94.2% on Sunday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

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 3,757 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
40%
Carrier
35%
Extreme weather
13%
National Airspace System
11%

Extreme weather accounts for 13% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,757 delay minutes reported on UA 2460.

Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, 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

5.8% 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.

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 four other city pairs in the data, including MSP to IAH (87), DTW to IAH (49) and OMA to IAH (21), 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: 87.4% on time and 0.27% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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.

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