Flight Status & Tracker

UAL542

UNITED AIRLINES INC · ORD → LAX · Last tracked Oct 22, 2026

UAL542 is a flight number operated by UNITED AIRLINES INC between Chicago O'Hare International Airport (KORD) and Los Angeles International Airport (KLAX). SkyMeter last tracked UAL542 on October 22, 2026. The flight is most often flown by a AIRBUS Airbus A321 Neo. Typical block time is 3h 29m. SkyMeter has observed 80 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
80
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
3h 29m
tracked time
📅
SERVICE PERIOD
5/31/2025 → 10/22/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
7 / 3
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
0.0%
0 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

4
42
avg 4h 14m · Chicago O'Hare → Los Angeles
2
avg 12m · Commerce Business Park Heliport → Los Angeles
2
avg 12m · St Francis Medical Center Helistop → Los Angeles
1
avg 9h 41m · Newark Liberty → Denver

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 UAL542

30
10/22/2026
15m
No alerts
10/19/2026
19m
No alerts
10/18/2026
4h 18m
No alerts
10/18/2026
3h 59m
No alerts
© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Tracked: 90-day window