Flight number record
UA 292
United Airlines · Austin to San Francisco
- Route
- AUS → SFO
- Departs
- 17:58
- Flights
- 328
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 292, check with United Airlines.
UA 292 draws a D+. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 328 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so UA 292 runs 16 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 163 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
61.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 326 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.61%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
20.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 328 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 20.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 328 flights, with 20:01 (67 flights) and 18:00 (53 flights) next.
- Departs 17:5870 flights21.3%
- Departs 20:0167 flights20.4%
- Departs 18:0053 flights16.2%
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 17:58 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and UA 292 runs 7 points worse at 61.0%. 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 292 next to AUS to SFO
Every carrier on AUS to SFO combined arrived on time 72.4% of the time across 2,788 flights, so UA 292 is 11 points behind it. United flew 1,638 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.5% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 18 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 292thin sample | 328 | 61.0% | 75 min | 0.61% | D+ |
| All United Airlines on AUS–SFO | 1,638 | 75.5% | 76 min | 0.37% | B+ |
| All carriers on AUS–SFO | 2,788 | 72.4% | 67 min | 0.54% | C+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | 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 Jul–Sep 2026 at 19.2%, a swing of 60 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 202526 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights79.3%
- Jan–Mar 202680 flights75.9%
- Apr–Jun 202682 flights46.3%
- Jul–Sep 202652 flights19.2%
Scale runs 10% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 292 did best on Tuesday at 79.5% on time and worst on Monday at 50.0%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 30 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 292 runs when it is late
When UA 292 is late it tends to be very late: 67 of its 127 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 23 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early76 flights23.3%
- Within 15 min123 flights37.7%
- 15–29 min late24 flights7.4%
- 30–59 min late36 flights11.0%
- 1–2 hours late44 flights13.5%
- 2+ hours late23 flights7.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 326 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
18 of 140 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. Only 5 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 292
The latest arrival of the period was on 24 August 2026, 4 hours 21 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 24 August 2026 | 4 hours 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 May 2026 | 4 hours 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 January 2026 | 4 hours 3 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 21 May 2026 | 3 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 August 2026 | 2 hours 58 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 292 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 62% of the 9,578 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 62%National Airspace System
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
62% 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 5,942 minutes out of 9,578, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 9,578 delay minutes reported on UA 292.
Cancellations are rare at 0.61%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
20.6% 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 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. 328 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. 20.6% 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.
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Where to go next
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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.