Flight number record
UA 292
United Airlines · Austin to San Francisco
- Route
- AUS → SFO
- Departs
- 17:58
- Flights
- 327
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 292, check with United Airlines.
UA 292 draws a C+. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 327 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 292 runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 103 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
67.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 324 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.92%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
14.2%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 327 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.2% 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 292 flies
UA 292 flies AUS to SFO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:58, used on 70 of 327 flights, with 18:00 (63 flights) and 19:50 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 17:5870 flights21.4%
- Departs 18:0063 flights19.3%
- Departs 19:5041 flights12.5%
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 17:58 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and UA 292 runs level with that at 67.3%. 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 292 next to AUS to SFO
Every carrier on AUS to SFO combined arrived on time 74.9% of the time across 2,795 flights, so UA 292 is 8 points behind it. United flew 1,655 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.8% 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 292thin sample | 327 | 67.3% | 65 min | 0.92% | C+ |
| All United Airlines on AUS–SFO | 1,655 | 78.8% | 74 min | 0.79% | B+ |
| All carriers on AUS–SFO | 2,795 | 74.9% | 65 min | 0.86% | C+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 292 quarter by quarter
UA 292 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 79.3% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 46.3%, a swing of 33 points on roughly 82 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 202577 flights67.1%
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights79.3%
- Jan–Mar 202680 flights75.9%
- Apr–Jun 202682 flights46.3%
Scale runs 40% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 292 did best on Tuesday at 81.2% on time and worst on Monday at 58.8%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 292 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 57% of the 6,923 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.
- 57%National Airspace System
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
57% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 3,978 minutes out of 6,923, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 6,923 delay minutes reported on UA 292.
Cancellations sit at 0.92% 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. 14.2% 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 1,504 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 six other city pairs in the data, including EWR to AUS (20), DTW to EWR (16) and LAX to SAN (6), but none flew often enough under UA 292 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to AUS to SFO only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 327 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 292
For a booking, UA 292 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 14.2% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
Related
Where to go next
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- SFO to AUS, the return direction
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- United Airlines 1668 on the same route75.2%
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.