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United Airlines IAD to ATL on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
80%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.7%
8 flights
Avg arrival delay
16 min
77 min when late
Rank on route
#2 of 4
route average 79% on time

Key facts

  • United Airlines flights on IAD to ATL arrived on time 80% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.7% were cancelled, and 9% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #2 of 4 airlines on this route, which averaged 79% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (43%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 72.9% on time, 0.9% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 83.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 89.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 83.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 84.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 75.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 90.0% on time, 4.1% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 80.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 79.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 89.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 71.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 74.8% on time, 1.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 66.7% on time, 3.9% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft43%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion29%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)24%
  • Extreme weather4%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on IAD to ATL

Full IAD to ATL comparison →
United Airlines on-time record across all routes →

1,092 United Airlines flights tracked on this route; 8 cancelled, 4 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.