Skip to content

United Airlines

Is UA870 delayed?

No delay reported yet. UA870 is scheduled to leave Sydney at 12:11 on Nov 15 and reach San Francisco at 06:18 (as of Nov 15, 07:05 UTC). Of its last 11 arrivals graded against a published schedule, 6 landed more than 15 min late.

No live update yet

Showing the published schedule until live times come in.

Update time unavailable

Departure

Sydney

SYD

Scheduled

Nov 15

Arrival

San Francisco

SFO

Scheduled

Nov 15

Times shown in airport local time

Service date: · Scheduled departure date (Australia/Sydney)

Flight details

Departure · UTC

Scheduled
Estimated
Not available
Actual
Not available

Arrival · UTC

Scheduled
Estimated
Not available
Actual
Not available

Also sold as NZ9870, AV2191, LH8937, LX3159, VA8004

Route overview: Sydney → San FranciscoSYDSFO
Sydney → San Francisco

Recent arrivals

Dates below are arrival dates in the destination airport’s time zone. The detailed history uses service dates.

  • Sydney → San Francisco

    80 min late
  • Sydney → San Francisco

    18 min late
  • Sydney → San Francisco

    66 min late
  • Sydney → San Francisco

    On schedule (4 min behind)
  • Sydney → San Francisco

    32 min late

Is UA870 usually late?

Period: Oct 16, 2026 – Nov 15, 2026

Landings recorded
20
Graded against schedule
11
Not graded
9
On time
5
Late
6
Cancelled
0
Diverted
0

Not graded: 9, with no published arrival schedule to compare against. They are in no other figure.

Percentages and delay figures appear once 20 arrivals are graded.

On time means landing no more than 15 minutes after the scheduled arrival, late more than 15 minutes after, both times read to the minute. The percentages share one base: graded arrivals plus cancelled and diverted flights. A cancelled plan another plan of the flight replaced within 12 hours is not counted. Median and “9 in 10” are interpolated over the graded arrivals. Compares scheduled and actual arrival times, read to the minute. Some flights may be missing.

How flight status works

Departures on record at these airports today

Sydney (SYD) departures

Delays are not graded at this airport yet. 0 of 8 departures on record due so far were cancelled.

Flights from Sydney to San Francisco today

San Francisco (SFO) departures

Delayed: left more than 15 min after schedule
136 delayed, 97 cancelled of 338 departures on record

Counts cover the departures on record at each airport, not its full schedule.

All United Airlines flights

Flight history and details
UA870 Recent arrival history
Service dateDepartureArrivalActualArrival delay (minutes)
Nov 14, 2026ArrivedSydneySan Francisco80
Nov 13, 2026ArrivedSydneySan Francisco18
Nov 12, 2026ArrivedSydneySan Francisco66
Nov 11, 2026ArrivedSydneySan Francisco4
Nov 10, 2026ArrivedSydneySan Francisco32
Nov 9, 2026ArrivedSydneySan Francisco-9
Nov 8, 2026ArrivedSydneySan Francisco18
Nov 7, 2026ArrivedSydneySan Francisco10
Nov 6, 2026ArrivedSydneySan Francisco-9
Nov 5, 2026ArrivedSydneySan Francisco6
Nov 4, 2026ArrivedSydneySan Francisco41
Embed this status on your site

Paste this code into your page. The card keeps itself up to date and links back here.