UA1754

UA1754 arrived on time 75.6% of the time, against 77.1% for all SFO → LAX flights, so this departure is 1.5 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 6.5 points worse.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 607 operations, August 2024 – July 2026 · If UA1754 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 · August 2024 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA1754 on SFO → LAX. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering August 2024 – July 2026

The aircraft flying UA1754 came in 15 or more minutes late on 21% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into SFO just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 514 of 607 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 August 2024 – July 2026

UA1754 pushes back an average of 11.9 minutes late and reaches the gate at LAX an average of 9.2 minutes late. The 2.7 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 23.2 minutes on the taxiways at SFO, 1.4 minutes longer than a typical SFO departure in the same hour.

On arrival at LAX, UA1754 spends 11.8 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 1.1 minutes longer than a typical LAX arrival (10.7 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 LAX. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 37,907 departures from SFO scheduled in the clock hour UA1754 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 UA1754’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · August 2024 – July 2026

UA1754 is scheduled out of SFO at 4:25 PM, in the 4 PM–5 PM bank. Departures from SFO in that hour arrive on time 75.7% of the time against 78.7% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 3.0 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from SFO 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 · August 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA1754 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering August 2024 – July 2026

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. UA1754 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.

• DL1715 SFO→LAX Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 10:55 AM, on time 69.6%
• DL1421 SFO→LAX Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 8:55 AM, on time 90.1%
• DL1598 SFO→LAX Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 6:00 AM, on time 94.9%
• UA505 SFO→IAH United Airlines flight out of SFO, SFO to IAH, departs 11:59 PM, on time 82.9%