UA2434

UA2434 arrived on time 83.2% of the time, against 74.5% for all EWR → LAX flights, so this departure is 8.7 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 9.9 points better.

UA2434’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 6:30 AM earlier on, and around 6:00 AM more recently — a 30-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 · 927 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If UA2434 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 ahead of the carrier's own average on this route, better than 92% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.

83.2% on time for this specific departure, against 73.3% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.

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.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA2434 on EWR → LAX. 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, UA2434 pushed back an average of 4 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 4 minutes late.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into EWR just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 673 of 915 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

UA2434 pushes back an average of 11.2 minutes late and reaches the gate at LAX an average of 1.7 minutes late. The 9.6 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 22.6 minutes on the taxiways at EWR, 1.7 minutes longer than a typical EWR departure in the same hour.

On arrival at LAX, UA2434 spends 14.1 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 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 31,762 departures from EWR scheduled in the clock hour UA2434 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 UA2434’s own. More on taxi time.

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

UA2434 is scheduled out of EWR at 6:00 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from EWR in that hour arrive on time 89.2% of the time against 77.7% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 11.6 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from EWR 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 UA2434 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. UA2434 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.

• UA2679 EWR→LAX United Airlines on the same route, departs 10:00 AM, on time 78.3%
• UA2191 EWR→LAX United Airlines on the same route, departs 2:45 PM, on time 74.3%
• AS287 EWR→LAX Alaska Airlines on the same route, departs 7:59 PM, on time 67.6%