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United Airlines DEN to IAD on-time performance

United Airlines nonstop flights from Denver to Washington · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
85%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.4%
11 flights
Avg arrival delay
11 min
65 min when late
Rank on route
#1 of 2
route average 81% on time

Key facts

  • United Airlines flights on DEN to IAD arrived on time 85% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.4% were cancelled, and 5% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #1 of 2 airlines on this route, which averaged 81% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (44%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 66.3% on time, 1.1% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 76.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 84.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 92.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 89.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 88.4% on time, 0.4% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 89.0% on time, 3.7% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 87.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 81.4% on time, 0.4% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 94.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 87.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 80.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 70.5% on time, 0.4% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft44%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)31%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion23%
  • Security1%
  • Extreme weather1%

Other airlines on DEN to IAD

2,786 United Airlines flights tracked on this route; 11 cancelled, 1 diverted.

Data: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 (12 months). Latest month published by BTS: July 2026. How we calculate this.