Flight number record
UA 469
United Airlines · Houston to Los Angeles
- Route
- IAH → LAX
- Departs
- 09:45
- Flights
- 349
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 469, check with United Airlines.
UA 469 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 50 minutes. That rests on 349 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 469's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 94 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 347 completed flights
Avg delay
50 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.57%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
2.9%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 349 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
Schedule
When UA 469 flies
UA 469 flies IAH to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:45, used on 90 of 349 flights, with 10:00 (68 flights) and 09:40 (54 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 09:4590 flights25.8%
- Departs 10:0068 flights19.5%
- Departs 09:4054 flights15.5%
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 09:45 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and UA 469 runs 3 points better at 87.0%. 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 469 next to IAH to LAX
Every carrier on IAH to LAX combined arrived on time 83.6% of the time across 5,260 flights, so UA 469 is 3 points ahead of it. United flew 3,416 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.4% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 469thin sample | 349 | 87.0% | 50 min | 0.57% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on IAH–LAX | 3,416 | 84.4% | 59 min | 0.32% | B+ |
| All carriers on IAH–LAX | 5,260 | 83.6% | 64 min | 0.57% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 469 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 469 held fairly steady: 89.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 85.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 89.9% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 83.5% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights89.1%
- Oct–Dec 202576 flights85.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights89.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.5%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 469 ranged from 80.0% on Monday to 90.0% on Friday. With about 50 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why UA 469 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 2,230 reported delay minutes.
- 37%National Airspace System
- 35%Carrier
- 21%Late-arriving aircraft
- 7%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 789 of the 2,230 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,230 delay minutes reported on UA 469.
Cancellations are rare at 0.57%, below the national 1.81% 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 1,379 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The same number turns up on seven other city pairs in the data, including SAT to IAH (241), LAX to SFO (228) and SFO to SBA (31), but none flew often enough under UA 469 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IAH to LAX only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 349 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 469
For a booking, UA 469 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.0% on time and 0.57% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
- IAH to LAX, every carrier and departure
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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.