UA1855

UA1855 arrived on time 64.8% of the time, against 79.6% for all LAX → EWR flights, so this departure is 14.8 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 14.2 points worse.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 606 operations, August 2024 – July 2026 · If UA1855 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

This flight runs unusually far behind the carrier's own average on this route, worse than 94% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.

64.8% on time for this specific departure, against 79.0% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.

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

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA1855 on LAX → EWR. 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 UA1855 came in 15 or more minutes late on 24% 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 LAX just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 268 of 598 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

UA1855 pushes back an average of 29.4 minutes late and reaches the gate at EWR an average of 21.6 minutes late. The 7.8 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. It spends 20.5 minutes on the taxiways at LAX, 2.4 minutes longer than a typical LAX departure in the same hour.

On arrival at EWR, UA1855 spends 13.6 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 3.4 minutes longer than a typical EWR arrival (10.1 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 EWR. 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 UA1855 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at EWR (387,854 flights), not just UA1855’s own. More on taxi time.

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

UA1855 is scheduled out of LAX at 1:30 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 · 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 UA1855 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. UA1855 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.

• UA1700 LAX→EWR United Airlines on the same route, departs 4:30 PM, on time 79.8%
• UA2096 LAX→EWR United Airlines on the same route, departs 8:20 AM, on time 80.5%
• UA2679 EWR→LAX Return trip, EWR to LAX, departs 10:00 AM, on time 78.3%
• UA2295 EWR→MIA United Airlines flight out of EWR, EWR to MIA, departs 11:15 AM, on time 76.7%