Flight profile · United Airlines
UA2096
Los Angeles (LAX) to Newark (EWR) · scheduled 8:20 AM – 4:45 PM
How UA2096 performs
811 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 811 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If UA2096 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where UA2096 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA2096 | 80.5% | 2.10% | -9 min | 6.6% | 811 |
| United Airlines on LAX → EWR | 79.0% | 1.96% | -10 min | 9.0% | 10,224 |
| All LAX → EWR flights | 79.6% | 1.90% | -10 min | 8.5% | 16,286 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why UA2096 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA2096 on LAX → EWR. 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 UA2096 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, UA2096 pushed back an average of 30 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 8 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, 494 of 794 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
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| UA2096 | 31% | 36% | 15% |
| Network, same turn | 23% | 40% | 9% |
The schedule leaves a long gap on the ground, which gives a late aircraft room to catch up before this flight pushes back.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 90 minutes to 3 hours. How often UA2096’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often UA2096 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 LAX late, does that still matter by the time it reaches EWR?
UA2096 pushes back an average of 14.5 minutes late and reaches the gate at EWR an average of 5.1 minutes late. The 9.3 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 21.8 minutes on the taxiways at LAX, 1.0 minutes longer than a typical LAX departure in the same hour.
On arrival at EWR, UA2096 spends 11.0 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 EWR 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 EWR. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 55,525 departures from LAX scheduled in the clock hour UA2096 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 UA2096’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves LAX
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. UA2096 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 55,525 departures from LAX are scheduled in the 8 AM–9 AM hour over the period, against 595,153 across the whole day.
UA2096 is scheduled out of LAX at 8:20 AM, in the 8 AM–9 AM bank. Departures from LAX in that hour arrive on time 84.6% of the time against 81.4% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 3.2 points better 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.
Other routes UA2096 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.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| RNO→LAX Reno to Los Angeles | May 21, 2026 – July 31, 2026 | 71 | — |
| EWR→ORD Newark to Chicago | September 25–30, 2025 | 6 | — |
| EWR→FLL Newark to Fort Lauderdale | June 27, 2024 – July 31, 2025 | 265 | 62.5% |
| PHX→LAX Phoenix to Los Angeles | June 27, 2025 – July 31, 2025 | 35 | — |
| LAS→EWR Las Vegas to Newark | January 7, 2025 – February 12, 2025 | 37 | — |
| IAH→TPA Houston to Tampa | December 19, 2024 – January 6, 2025 | 19 | — |
| SFO→LAX San Francisco to Los Angeles | July 2, 2023 – December 20, 2023 | 162 | 80.7% |
| PDX→SFO Portland to San Francisco | August 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 30 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA2096 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.
38 min late
against a median of 9 min early
Percentiles over 811 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.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS284 | Alaska Airlines | 84.9% | 12 min early | 949 |
| UA2096 this flight | United Airlines | 80.5% | 9 min early | 811 |
| UA1700 | United Airlines | 79.8% | 16 min early | 893 |
| AS286 | Alaska Airlines | 71.8% | 4 min early | 637 |
| UA1855 | United Airlines | 64.8% | 2 min late | 606 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. UA2096 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 811 records of UA2096 operating LAX → EWR, 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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