Flight number record
UA 2641
United Airlines · Newark to Los Angeles
- Route
- EWR → LAX
- Departs
- 17:30
- Flights
- 360
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 360 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so UA 2641 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 72 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 351 completed flights
Avg delay
96 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.50%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
14.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 360 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When UA 2641 flies
UA 2641 flies EWR to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:30, used on 129 of 360 flights, with 18:15 (58 flights) and 18:10 (56 flights) next.
- Departs 17:30129 flights35.8%
- Departs 18:1558 flights16.1%
- Departs 18:1056 flights15.6%
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 17:30 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and UA 2641 runs 2 points better at 70.1%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
UA 2641 next to EWR to LAX
Every carrier on EWR to LAX combined arrived on time 70.7% of the time across 4,750 flights, so UA 2641 is about level with it. United flew 3,527 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 71.0% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2641thin sample | 360 | 70.1% | 96 min | 2.50% | C |
| All United Airlines on EWR–LAX | 3,527 | 71.0% | 84 min | 1.93% | C |
| All carriers on EWR–LAX | 4,750 | 70.7% | 82 min | 2.46% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | 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 2026 at 56.7%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 90 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 202527 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights75.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights71.8%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights72.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights56.7%
Scale runs 50% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2641 did best on Thursday at 79.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 61.2%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2641 runs when it is late
UA 2641 often beats the schedule: 102 of 351 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 105 late arrivals split 27 under half an hour, 27 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 51 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early102 flights29.1%
- Within 15 min144 flights41.0%
- 15–29 min late27 flights7.7%
- 30–59 min late27 flights7.7%
- 1–2 hours late23 flights6.6%
- 2+ hours late28 flights8.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 351 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
21 of 92 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. In the other direction, 34 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at LAX.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2641
The latest arrival of the period was on 9 December 2025, 14 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 9 December 2025 | 14 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 January 2026 | 7 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 7 August 2026 | 6 hours 3 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 4 September 2025 | 5 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 August 2026 | 5 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why UA 2641 runs late
Carrier accounts for 50% of the 10,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Carrier
- 22%National Airspace System
- 18%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 50%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,047 of the 10,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 10,117 delay minutes reported on UA 2641.
Cancellations run at 2.50%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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
14.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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 LAX to CLE (91), TPA to EWR (82) 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. 360 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: 2.50% of its 360 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
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- United Airlines 2191 on the same route74.1%
- Alaska Airlines 287 on the same route73.2%
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.