UAL542 is operated by UNITED AIRLINES INC between Chicago O'Hare International Airport (KORD) and Los Angeles International Airport (KLAX). The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8. Typical block time is 4h 55m. SkyMeter has observed 15 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

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FLIGHTS
15
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
4h 55m
tracked time
📅
SERVICE PERIOD
5/31/2025 → 8/15/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
6 / 4
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
0.0%
0 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

3
KORD → KLAX
2
avg 4h 32m · Chicago O'Hare → Los Angeles
KDTW → KDEN
2
avg 3h 16m · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County → Denver
KEWR → KDEN
2
avg 9h 36m · Newark Liberty → Denver

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

4
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
6
A21N AIRBUS Airbus A321 Neo
5
A320 AIRBUS Airbus A320
2
A319 AIRBUS Airbus A319
2

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
N14524AIRBUS Airbus A321 Neo
→
8/15/2026
3h 30m
No alerts
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N14524AIRBUS Airbus A321 Neo
→
8/15/2026
9m
No alerts
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N24573
→
8/14/2026
1h 4m
No alerts
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N24573
→
8/13/2026
3h 28m
No alerts
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N24573
→
8/13/2026
8m
No alerts
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N24573
→
8/13/2026
4h 59m
No alerts
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N14507AIRBUS Airbus A321 Neo
→
8/12/2026
3h 37m
No alerts
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N14507AIRBUS Airbus A321 Neo
→
8/11/2026
27m
No alerts
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N14507AIRBUS Airbus A321 Neo
→
8/11/2026
4h 5m
No alerts
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N37295BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
8/1/2026
1h 51m
No alerts
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N47282BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
7/25/2026
9h 40m
No alerts
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N37257BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
7/18/2026
8h 46m
No alerts
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N37319BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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7/4/2026
9h 18m
No alerts
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N17356BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
6/13/2026
9h 31m
No alerts
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N27263BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
6/6/2026
8h 47m
No alerts
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N849UAAIRBUS Airbus A319
→
5/20/2026
3h 14m
No alerts
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N465UAAIRBUS Airbus A320
→
5/19/2026
2h 55m
No alerts
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N465UAAIRBUS Airbus A320
→
5/19/2026
14m
No alerts
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N846UAAIRBUS Airbus A319
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5/18/2026
3h 16m
No alerts
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N882UAAIRBUS Airbus A319
→
5/17/2026
51m
No alerts
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N833UAAIRBUS Airbus A319
→
5/16/2026
13m
No alerts
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N833UAAIRBUS Airbus A319
→
5/16/2026
3h 6m
No alerts
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N833UAAIRBUS Airbus A319
→
5/15/2026
2h 56m
No alerts
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N837UAAIRBUS Airbus A319
→
5/14/2026
3h 9m
No alerts
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N825UAAIRBUS Airbus A319
→
5/13/2026
3h 3m
No alerts
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N825UAAIRBUS Airbus A319
→
5/12/2026
3h 15m
No alerts
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N837UAAIRBUS Airbus A319
→
5/11/2026
3h 0m
No alerts
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N451UAAIRBUS Airbus A320
→
5/10/2026
3h 6m
No alerts
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N803UAAIRBUS Airbus A319
→
5/9/2026
3h 32m
No alerts
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N818UAAIRBUS Airbus A319
→
5/8/2026
3h 13m
△ Low approach-stability score
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