UA1431

UA1431 arrived on time 83.7% of the time, against 78.8% for all LAX → HNL flights, so this departure is 4.9 percentage points better than the route as a whole.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 922 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If UA1431 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA1431 on LAX → HNL. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, UA1431 pushed back an average of 30 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 2 minutes late.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into LAX just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 816 of 918 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.

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

UA1431 pushes back an average of 19.1 minutes late and reaches the gate at HNL an average of 5.9 minutes late. The 13.2 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. It spends 19.7 minutes on the taxiways at LAX, 1.7 minutes longer than a typical LAX departure in the same hour.

On arrival at HNL, UA1431 spends 5.4 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 2.8 minutes shorter than a typical HNL arrival (8.3 min).

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 HNL. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 35,768 departures from LAX scheduled in the clock hour UA1431 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at HNL (186,355 flights), not just UA1431’s own. More on taxi time.

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

UA1431 is scheduled out of LAX at 1:15 PM, in the 1 PM–2 PM bank. Departures from LAX in that hour arrive on time 77.9% of the time against 81.4% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 3.5 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from LAX 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.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA1431 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

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

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. UA1431 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.

• DL465 LAX→HNL Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 1:55 PM, on time 76.3%
• AA143 LAX→HNL American Airlines on the same route, departs 3:17 PM, on time 81.4%
• UA1170 LAX→HNL United Airlines on the same route, departs 5:10 PM, on time 81.6%
• UA253 IAH→HNL United Airlines flight into HNL, IAH to HNL, departs 10:10 AM, on time 69.9%