Flight number record

UA 1026

United Airlines · Denver to Austin

Route: DEN → AUS
Departs: 09:42
Flights: 359
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1026, check with United Airlines.

UA 1026 lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 359 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

On time

81.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights

Avg delay

59 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.28%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 359 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Schedule

When UA 1026 flies

UA 1026 flies DEN to AUS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:42, used on 54 of 359 flights, with 10:05 (53 flights) and 09:45 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 09:4254 flights15.0%
Departs 10:0553 flights14.8%
Departs 09:4537 flights10.3%

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 09:42 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and UA 1026 runs 3 points worse at 81.5%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

UA 1026 next to DEN to AUS

Every carrier on DEN to AUS combined arrived on time 76.1% of the time across 5,301 flights, so UA 1026 is 5 points ahead of it. United flew 1,914 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.9% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 3 points.

UA 1026 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 1026thin sample	359	81.5%	59 min	0.28%	B+
All United Airlines on DEN–AUS	1,914	79.9%	64 min	0.63%	B+
All carriers on DEN–AUS	5,301	76.1%	61 min	0.60%	B+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 1026 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter UA 1026 held fairly steady: 80.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 79.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 84.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights80.0%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights79.3%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.2%
Apr–Jun 202685 flights84.7%

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 1026 did best on Tuesday at 94.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 74.5%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 1026 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 47% of the 3,894 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
47%
Late-arriving aircraft
33%
National Airspace System
20%

The largest share of delay minutes, 47%, 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 1,830 of the 3,894 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,894 delay minutes reported on UA 1026.

Cancellations are rare at 0.28%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is 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 4.5% 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 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. 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.

The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including MSO to DEN (139), IAD to DEN (18) 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. 359 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 81.5% on time with 0.28% cancelled over 359 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

Where to go next

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.

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