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United Airlines EWR to RDU on-time performance

United Airlines nonstop flights from Newark to Raleigh/Durham · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
75%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
2.5%
38 flights
Avg arrival delay
20 min
78 min when late
Rank on route
#2 of 3
route average 76% on time

Key facts

  • United Airlines flights on EWR to RDU arrived on time 75% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 2.5% were cancelled, and 11% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #2 of 3 airlines on this route, which averaged 76% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (52%).

On-time trend by month

40%70%100%July 2025: 75.0% on time, 6.7% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 76.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 81.4% on time, 0.8% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 63.6% on time, 0.7% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 68.8% on time, 3.8% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 67.8% on time, 1.3% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 81.1% on time, 6.2% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 78.2% on time, 6.5% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 79.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 87.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 85.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 79.5% on time, 1.7% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 53.2% on time, 8.9% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft52%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)27%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion17%
  • Extreme weather3%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on EWR to RDU

1,518 United Airlines flights tracked on this route; 38 cancelled, 2 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.