Flight number record
UA 1026
United Airlines · Denver to Austin
- Route
- DEN → AUS
- Departs
- 10:05
- Flights
- 353
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1026, check with United Airlines.
UA 1026 lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 50 minutes on average. That rests on 353 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1026's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 51 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 353 completed flights
Avg delay
51 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 353 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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.
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Schedule
When UA 1026 flies
UA 1026 flies DEN to AUS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:05, used on 70 of 353 flights, with 09:42 (54 flights) and 09:40 (42 flights) next.
- Departs 10:0570 flights19.8%
- Departs 09:4254 flights15.3%
- Departs 09:4042 flights11.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 10:05 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and UA 1026 runs level with that at 82.4%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
UA 1026 next to DEN to AUS
Every carrier on DEN to AUS combined arrived on time 76.2% of the time across 5,486 flights, so UA 1026 is 6 points ahead of it. United flew 1,883 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.6% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1026thin sample | 353 | 82.4% | 51 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| All United Airlines on DEN–AUS | 1,883 | 79.6% | 61 min | 0.32% | B+ |
| All carriers on DEN–AUS | 5,486 | 76.2% | 62 min | 0.55% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 1026 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 1026 held fairly steady: 86.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 79.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.2% in Jan–Mar 2026, 84.7% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 82.1% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights86.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights79.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.2%
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights84.7%
- Jul–Sep 202656 flights82.1%
Scale runs 70% to 90%.
By weekday, UA 1026 did best on Tuesday at 94.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 73.1%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1026 runs when it is late
The 62 late arrivals split 30 under half an hour, 19 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early75 flights21.2%
- Within 15 min216 flights61.2%
- 15–29 min late30 flights8.5%
- 30–59 min late19 flights5.4%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.4%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 353 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 55 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 1026
The latest arrival of the period was on 21 June 2026, 3 hours 42 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across June, December, January and July, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 21 June 2026 | 3 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 December 2025 | 3 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 June 2026 | 2 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 January 2026 | 2 hours 23 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 10 July 2026 | 2 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why UA 1026 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 3,130 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Carrier
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%National Airspace System
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,130 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 36 to one. The split is drawn from 3,130 delay minutes reported on UA 1026.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% 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 3.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 775 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.
The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including MSO to DEN (200) and FSD to DEN (4), but none flew often enough under UA 1026 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DEN to AUS only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 353 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.
What to do with this
Booking UA 1026
For a booking, read UA 1026 as 82.4% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 353 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.