Flight number record
UA 2679
United Airlines · Newark to Los Angeles
- Route
- EWR → LAX
- Departs
- 10:00
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2679, check with United Airlines.
UA 2679 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
76.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 356 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.92%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When UA 2679 flies
UA 2679 flies EWR to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:00, used on 180 of 364 flights, with 10:45 (68 flights) and 10:30 (64 flights) next.
- Departs 10:00180 flights49.5%
- Departs 10:4568 flights18.7%
- Departs 10:3064 flights17.6%
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 10:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and UA 2679 runs 7 points worse at 76.7%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
UA 2679 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 2679 is 6 points ahead of 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 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2679thin sample | 364 | 76.7% | 71 min | 1.92% | B |
| 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 2679 quarter by quarter
UA 2679 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 81.4% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 67.8%, a swing of 14 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 202529 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights67.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights81.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights80.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights76.7%
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2679 did best on Wednesday at 84.6% on time and worst on Friday at 65.4%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2679 runs when it is late
UA 2679 often beats the schedule: 118 of 356 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 83 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 29 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 33 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early118 flights33.1%
- Within 15 min155 flights43.5%
- 15–29 min late21 flights5.9%
- 30–59 min late29 flights8.1%
- 1–2 hours late21 flights5.9%
- 2+ hours late12 flights3.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 356 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
24 of 85 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 28% of them. In the other direction, 22 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 2679
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 June 2026, 14 hours 32 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 June 2026 | 14 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 August 2026 | 4 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 August 2026 | 2 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 August 2026 | 2 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 October 2025 | 2 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why UA 2679 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 5,895 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Late-arriving aircraft
- 38%Carrier
- 22%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
39% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,895 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 39 to one. The split is drawn from 5,895 delay minutes reported on UA 2679.
Cancellations sit at 1.92% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.27%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
9.3% 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 LAS (89), PBI to EWR (14) and LAX to DEN (1), but none flew often enough under UA 2679 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. 364 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 2679
For a booking, read UA 2679 as 76.7% on time with 1.92% cancelled over 364 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.