Flight number record
UA 469
United Airlines · Houston to Los Angeles
- Route
- IAH → LAX
- Departs
- 09:53
- Flights
- 349
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 349 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 469's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 117 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 347 completed flights
Avg delay
49 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.57%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 349 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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.
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Schedule
When UA 469 flies
UA 469 flies IAH to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:53, used on 82 of 349 flights, with 10:00 (76 flights) and 09:40 (54 flights) next.
- Departs 09:5382 flights23.5%
- Departs 10:0076 flights21.8%
- Departs 09:4054 flights15.5%
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 09:53 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and UA 469 runs 5 points better at 89.0%. 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 469 next to IAH to LAX
Every carrier on IAH to LAX combined arrived on time 84.1% of the time across 5,147 flights, so UA 469 is 5 points ahead of it. United flew 3,421 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.7% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 469thin sample | 349 | 89.0% | 49 min | 0.57% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on IAH–LAX | 3,421 | 85.7% | 57 min | 0.20% | A+ |
| All carriers on IAH–LAX | 5,147 | 84.1% | 62 min | 0.45% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 469 quarter by quarter
UA 469 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 96.8% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 83.5%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 70 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 202530 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202576 flights85.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights89.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights96.8%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 469 did best on Friday at 94.0% on time and worst on Monday at 80.4%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 469 runs when it is late
UA 469 often beats the schedule: 109 of 347 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 38 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 20 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 7 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early109 flights31.4%
- Within 15 min200 flights57.6%
- 15–29 min late11 flights3.2%
- 30–59 min late20 flights5.8%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.2%
- 2+ hours late3 flights0.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 347 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 30 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 9 still arrived on time. 17 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 469
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 May 2026, 2 hours 35 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 May 2026 | 2 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 July 2026 | 2 hours 21 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 12 January 2026 | 2 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 November 2025 | 1 hour 39 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 November 2025 | 1 hour 39 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why UA 469 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 45% of the 1,848 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%National Airspace System
- 38%Carrier
- 17%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 38%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 704 of the 1,848 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,848 delay minutes reported on UA 469.
Cancellations are rare at 0.57%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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.
The same number turns up on eight other city pairs in the data, including SAT to IAH (223), LAX to SFO (187) 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: 89.0% 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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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.