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UA1093

Denver (DEN) to Los Angeles (LAX) · scheduled 6:00 AM – 9:15 AM

This page describes how UA1093 has historically performed, which is a different and more useful question when you are deciding what to book. The live position below is a reading from receivers on the ground, not flight status. For today’s status, check with United Airlines.

How UA1093 performs

874 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.

On-time arrivals
91.2%
788 of 864 completed
Cancellation rate
0.92%
8 cancelled
Median arrival delay
-11 min
Average -4.3 min
Severe delays
3.5%
Arrived 60+ minutes late
Delay when late
68 min
Average, when 15+ min late
Departure punctuality
92.8%
Left the gate on time

UA1093 arrived on time 91.2% of the time, against 78.9% for all DEN → LAX flights, so this departure is 12.3 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 9.3 points better.

UA1093’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 7:45 AM earlier on, and around 6:00 AM more recently — a 105-minute shift, not the few minutes of day-to-day rounding every published schedule carries. Confirm the current departure time before booking around an older listing.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 874 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If UA1093 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

What stands out

How UA1093 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.

This flight runs unusually far ahead of the DEN → LAX route as a whole, better than 94% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.

91.2% on time for this specific departure, against 78.9% for every DEN → LAX flight.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.

Where UA1093 is right now

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Against the rest of the route

Against the rest of the route
Flight or routeOn timeCancelledMedian delaySevereFlights
UA109391.2%0.92%-11 min3.5%874
United Airlines on DEN → LAX81.9%0.71%-6 min6.2%9,740
All DEN → LAX flights78.9%0.69%-6 min6.9%23,745

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

Why UA1093 runs late

Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA1093 on DEN → LAX. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

Does a late aircraft delay this flight?

How often the plane that flies UA1093 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.

Inbound aircraft late
24%
152 of 641 departures came in 15+ minutes late
Scheduled time on the ground
8 hours
Median at DEN between the inbound and this departure
Left 15+ late after a late inbound
5%
152 departures
Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound
4%
489 departures

UA1093 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 8 hours on the ground at DEN, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, UA1093 pushed back an average of 4 minutes early; when it came in on time or early, an average of 3 minutes early.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into DEN just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 641 of 866 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.

Against the network at the same turn length

UA1093 against all flights with a scheduled turn of 6 hours or more, usually overnight
Share of departuresInbound landed 15+ lateLeft 15+ late after a late inboundLeft 15+ late after an on-time inbound
UA109324%5%4%
Network, same turn29%12%9%

A night on the ground absorbs most of a late arrival, so a late inbound matters far less on a turn this long than on a same-day one.

The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 6 hours or more, usually overnight. How often UA1093’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often UA1093 left 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s.

More: Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft lists the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

From pushback to gate

When it leaves DEN late, does that still matter by the time it reaches LAX?

Leaves the gate
1.5 minutes late
Average over 866 pushbacks
Taxi out at DEN
18.6 min
18.2 min for the airport in this hour
Taxi in at LAX
11.2 min
10.7 min for a typical LAX arrival
Reaches the gate at LAX
4.3 minutes early
Average over 864 arrivals

UA1093 pushes back an average of 1.5 minutes late and reaches the gate at LAX an average of 4.3 minutes early. The 5.8 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. Its 18.6 minutes on the taxiways at DEN is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.

On arrival at LAX, UA1093 spends 11.2 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is about what any arrival at LAX spends on the ground before reaching the gate.

Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached LAX. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 33,948 departures from DEN scheduled in the clock hour UA1093 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at LAX (595,170 flights), not just UA1093’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

The hour it leaves DEN

Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. UA1093 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.

UA109391.2%
All DEN departures, 6 AM–7 AM90.8%
All DEN departures, whole day76.0%

On-time arrival rate. 33,948 departures from DEN are scheduled in the 6 AM–7 AM hour over the period, against 963,099 across the whole day.

UA1093 is scheduled out of DEN at 6:00 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from DEN in that hour arrive on time 90.8% of the time against 76.0% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 14.7 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from DEN to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Other routes UA1093 has flown

A flight number is a slot in a schedule, and carriers reassign it. These are the other city pairs this number served in the analysis period.

Other routes UA1093 has flown
RouteOperatedFlightsOn time
LAX→BWI Los Angeles to BaltimoreMarch 29, 2026 – July 31, 202612189.9%
ORF→IAD Norfolk to WashingtonMarch 5–28, 202624—
CLE→MCO Cleveland to OrlandoFebruary 12, 2026 – March 4, 202621—
ICT→IAH Wichita to HoustonJanuary 6, 2026 – February 11, 202636—
CHS→ORD Charleston to ChicagoDecember 2, 20251—
LAX→SEA Los Angeles to SeattleSeptember 25, 2025 – October 25, 202531—
LAX→SFO Los Angeles to San FranciscoAugust 19, 2025 – September 24, 202537—
LGA→IAH New York to HoustonAugust 1–18, 202515—
ORD→BUF Chicago to BuffaloAugust 2–16, 20253—
SLC→IAH Salt Lake City to HoustonJune 8–22, 20253—
RDU→IAD Raleigh–Durham to WashingtonMarch 30, 20251—
LAX→CLE Los Angeles to ClevelandJanuary 7, 2025 – February 12, 202532—

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA1093 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

When it goes wrong

The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.

One arrival in ten is worse than

12 min late

against a median of 11 min early

Arrived an hour or more late3.5%
Typical delay when late68 min
Cancelled0.92%
Landed somewhere else0.23%

Percentiles over 874 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

Other flights on this route

Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.

Other flights on this route
FlightAirlineOn timeMedian arrivalOperations
UA1093 this flightUnited Airlines91.2%11 min early874
UA1638United Airlines89.8%7 min early674
DL2002Delta Air Lines88.2%10 min early989
UA405United Airlines87.9%10 min early1,053
F92341Frontier Airlines86.5%9 min early646
DL2828Delta Air Lines85.0%10 min early699
UA1013United Airlines85.0%7 min early1,127
UA2240United Airlines76.2%2 min early825
UA1368United Airlines68.2%0 min early976

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. UA1093 is placed in the same ordering rather than left out of it; the rows around it are the most punctual departures on the route, not all of them, so this is a comparison and not a rank. Schedules change; confirm the departure still operates before booking around this.

Data and methodology

Calculated by FlyerIntel from 874 records of UA1093 operating DEN → LAX, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately. Flight numbers are resolved as carrier plus number plus route, because the same number serves different routes over time.

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