Flight number record
UA 1022
United Airlines · Denver to San Antonio
- Route
- DEN → SAT
- Departs
- 13:41
- Flights
- 327
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1022, check with United Airlines.
UA 1022 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 12 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 45 minutes. That rests on 327 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1022's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 117 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 327 completed flights
Avg delay
46 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
2.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 327 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
Schedule
When UA 1022 flies
UA 1022 flies DEN to SAT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:41, used on 74 of 327 flights, with 13:46 (71 flights) and 13:45 (55 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 13:4174 flights22.6%
- Departs 13:4671 flights21.7%
- Departs 13:4555 flights16.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 13:41 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and UA 1022 runs 11 points better at 89.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
UA 1022 next to DEN to SAT
Every carrier on DEN to SAT combined arrived on time 76.5% of the time across 3,030 flights, so UA 1022 is 13 points ahead of it. United flew 1,205 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.9% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1022thin sample | 327 | 89.3% | 46 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on DEN–SAT | 1,205 | 81.9% | 63 min | 0.25% | B+ |
| All carriers on DEN–SAT | 3,030 | 76.5% | 57 min | 0.23% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 1022 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 1022 held fairly steady: 88.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 90.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.0% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 91.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights88.0%
- Oct–Dec 202575 flights90.7%
- Jan–Mar 202669 flights87.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.2%
Scale runs 80% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1022 ranged from 85.1% on Friday to 93.6% on Tuesday. With about 47 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why UA 1022 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 1,605 reported delay minutes.
- 35%Carrier
- 33%National Airspace System
- 29%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 557 of the 1,605 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,605 delay minutes reported on UA 1022.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.4% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 794 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
UA 1022 is not only a DEN to SAT flight. It also flew MCO to DEN (293 flights, 88.9% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 327 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCO to DENthin sample | 293 | 88.9% | 118 min | 1.71% | A |
What to do with this
Booking UA 1022
For a booking, UA 1022 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 89.3% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to SAT, every carrier and departure
- SAT to DEN, the return direction
- United Airlines 1110 on the same route74.6%
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- San Antonio International (SAT) delay statistics
- United Airlines on-time record
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A flight number here means United Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.