Flight number record
UA 2692
United Airlines · Newark to Los Angeles
- Route
- EWR → LAX
- Departs
- 08:40
- Flights
- 292
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2692, check with United Airlines.
UA 2692 draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about 55 minutes behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 292 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 2692 runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 106 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
67.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 288 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.37%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
9.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 292 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.4% 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 2692 flies
UA 2692 flies EWR to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:40, used on 82 of 292 flights, with 08:35 (72 flights) and 09:20 (52 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 08:4082 flights28.1%
- Departs 08:3572 flights24.7%
- Departs 09:2052 flights17.8%
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 08:40 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and UA 2692 runs 17 points worse at 67.0%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
UA 2692 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 2692 is 5 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 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2692thin sample | 292 | 67.0% | 55 min | 1.37% | 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 2692 quarter by quarter
UA 2692 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 79.1% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 53.7%, a swing of 25 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 202544 flights79.1%
- Oct–Dec 202567 flights53.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights60.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.9%
Scale runs 45% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2692 did best on Monday at 75.6% on time and worst on Saturday at 59.5%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 2692 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 5,188 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 26%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
41% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 5,188 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 41 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 5,188 delay minutes reported on UA 2692.
Cancellations sit at 1.37% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
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. 9.4% 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 eight other city pairs in the data, including LAX to SFO (37), SFO to ONT (34) and IAH to ABQ (31), but none flew often enough under UA 2692 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. 292 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 2692
For a booking, read UA 2692 as 67.0% on time with 1.37% cancelled over 292 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.