Flight number record
UA 2641
United Airlines · Newark to Los Angeles
- Route
- EWR → LAX
- Departs
- 18:30
- Flights
- 357
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2641, check with United Airlines.
UA 2641 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 357 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 2641 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 73 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 347 completed flights
Avg delay
98 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.80%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
15.9%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 357 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When UA 2641 flies
UA 2641 flies EWR to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:30, used on 100 of 357 flights, with 17:30 (73 flights) and 18:15 (58 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 18:30100 flights28.0%
- Departs 17:3073 flights20.4%
- Departs 18:1558 flights16.2%
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 18:30 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and UA 2641 runs 2 points better at 70.3%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
UA 2641 next to EWR to LAX
Every carrier on EWR to LAX combined arrived on time 71.9% of the time across 4,927 flights, so UA 2641 is 2 points behind it. United flew 3,540 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 72.2% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2641thin sample | 357 | 70.3% | 98 min | 2.80% | C |
| All United Airlines on EWR–LAX | 3,540 | 72.2% | 83 min | 1.95% | C |
| All carriers on EWR–LAX | 4,927 | 71.9% | 82 min | 2.31% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 2641 quarter by quarter
UA 2641 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 75.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 61.4%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 89 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 202586 flights61.4%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights75.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights71.8%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights72.2%
Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2641 did best on Thursday at 80.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 60.4%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 2641 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 46% of the 10,000 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.
- 46%Carrier
- 27%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 46%, 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 4,667 of the 10,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 10,067 delay minutes reported on UA 2641.
Cancellations run at 2.80%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 15.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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 TPA to EWR (82), LAX to CLE (40) and IAD to TPA (20), but none flew often enough under UA 2641 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to EWR to LAX only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 357 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 2641
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on UA 2641: 2.80% of its 357 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to LAX, every carrier and departure
- LAX to EWR, the return direction
- United Airlines 2434 on the same route77.7%
- United Airlines 2191 on the same route75.7%
- Alaska Airlines 287 on the same route72.8%
- United Airlines 2679 on the same route77.7%
- United Airlines 2238 on the same route71.4%
- United Airlines 2692 on the same route67.0%
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- United Airlines on-time record
- Every United Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.