Carrier route record
UALAX→FAT
United Airlines · Los Angeles to Fresno
- Flights
- 199
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 21%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on LAX to FAT lands a B+, 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 199 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, United's LAX to FAT record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 66 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 199 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
86.3%
Every carrier on LAX to FAT, 964 flights
These figures cover 199 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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Carrier by carrier
United against every carrier on LAX to FAT
United flew 199 of the 964 flights on LAX to FAT, about 21% of it. Its 83.9% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 86.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 87.0% to United at 83.9%.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines | 765 | 87.0% | 82 min | 0.65% | A+ |
| United Airlines (this page)thin sample | 199 | 83.9% | 58 min | 0.00% | B+ |
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Departure window
When United runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 199 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm101 flights88.1%
- 5pm–8pm88 flights80.7%
- 8pm–5am10 flights—
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 2pm–5pm slot at 88.1% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 80.7%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 101 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on LAX to FAT through the year
- Jan–Mar 202648 flights87.5%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights82.2%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights83.6%
Scale runs 75% to 95%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 83.9% on time across 199 flights.
Quarter by quarter United on LAX to FAT held fairly steady: 87.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 82.2% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 83.6% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on LAX to FAT runs when it is late
United on LAX to FAT often beats the schedule: 66 of 199 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 32 late arrivals split 6 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early66 flights33.2%
- Within 15 min101 flights50.8%
- 15–29 min late6 flights3.0%
- 30–59 min late13 flights6.5%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights6.0%
- 2+ hours late1 flights0.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 199 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 41 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. Only 1 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for United on LAX to FAT
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 May 2026, 2 hours 2 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2 May 2026 | 2 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 April 2026 | 1 hour 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 June 2026 | 1 hour 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 June 2026 | 1 hour 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 July 2026 | 1 hour 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 64% of the 1,860 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 64%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 4%National Airspace System
64% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 1,860 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 64 to one. The split is drawn from 1,860 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 209 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 2pm–5pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 85.4% on time across 199 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 199 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 United on LAX to FAT
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 199 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 83.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 199 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to FAT, every carrier
- United on FAT to LAX, the return leg
- SkyWest Airlines on LAX to FAT87.0%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
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.