Flight Status & Tracker

UAL491

UNITED AIRLINES INC · IAH → MSY · Last tracked Nov 9, 2026

UAL491 is a flight number operated by UNITED AIRLINES INC between George Bush Intercontinental Houston Airport (KIAH) and Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (KMSY). SkyMeter last tracked UAL491 on November 9, 2026. The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 9. Typical block time is 1h 51m. SkyMeter has observed 151 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

SkyMeter tracks historical flight activity from ADS-B data — this is not a live gate-to-gate status feed.

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FLIGHTS
151
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
1h 51m
tracked time
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SERVICE PERIOD
5/27/2025 → 11/9/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
3 / 9
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
0.0%
0 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

3
78
avg 48m · George Bush Intercontinental Houston → Louis Armstrong New Orleans
67
avg 2h 59m · Los Angeles → George Bush Intercontinental Houston
avg 3h 11m · Sheraton Gateway Los Angeles Hotel Helipad → George Bush Intercontinental Houston

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
0
Rejected TO
0
Stall warnings
0
Overspeeds
0
Runway excursion
0
Counts represent flights with at least one occurrence of each flag, not the total event count. See /incidents for individual events.

Recent flights

Newest 30 operations of UAL491

30
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