UA679

UA679 arrived on time 89.6% of the time, against 86.8% for all CLE → LAX flights, so this departure is 2.8 percentage points better than the route as a whole.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 653 operations, November 2023 – July 2026 · If UA679 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 · November 2023 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA679 on CLE → LAX. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

The aircraft flying UA679 came in 15 or more minutes late on 7% 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 CLE just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 579 of 653 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 November 2023 – July 2026

UA679 pushes back an average of 3.9 minutes late and reaches the gate at LAX an average of 5.7 minutes early. 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 14.4 minutes on the taxiways at CLE, 1.4 minutes shorter than a typical CLE departure in the same hour.

On arrival at LAX, UA679 spends 9.4 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 1.4 minutes shorter 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 6,021 departures from CLE scheduled in the clock hour UA679 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 UA679’s own. More on taxi time.

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

UA679 is scheduled out of CLE at 3:42 PM, in the 3 PM–4 PM bank. Departures from CLE in that hour arrive on time 76.6% of the time against 80.9% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 4.3 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from CLE 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 · November 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA679 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

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

• UA1545 CLE→IAH United Airlines flight out of CLE, CLE to IAH, departs 3:17 PM, on time 86.0%
• UA2146 LAX→DEN United Airlines flight out of LAX, LAX to DEN, departs 4:10 PM, on time 77.2%
• UA2377 LAX→IAH United Airlines flight out of LAX, LAX to IAH, departs 4:10 PM, on time 85.1%