Flight number record
UA 1369
United Airlines · Chicago to Washington
- Route
- ORD → DCA
- Departs
- 18:00
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1369, check with United Airlines.
UA 1369 earns an F−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 48.4% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 29 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average a little over an hour. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so UA 1369 runs 29 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 289 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
48.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 347 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.31%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
24.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 363 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 24.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When UA 1369 flies
UA 1369 is scheduled to leave Chicago (ORD) at 18:00 local time and reach Washington (DCA) at 20:59. That slot held for 355 of the 363 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 18:00355 flights97.8%
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 18:00 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and UA 1369 runs 20 points worse at 48.4%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
UA 1369 next to ORD to DCA
Every carrier on ORD to DCA combined arrived on time 69.0% of the time across 7,104 flights, so UA 1369 is 21 points behind it. United flew 3,411 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 70.1% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 30 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1369thin sample | 363 | 48.4% | 76 min | 3.31% | F− |
| All United Airlines on ORD–DCA | 3,411 | 70.1% | 74 min | 2.14% | C |
| All carriers on ORD–DCA | 7,104 | 69.0% | 80 min | 3.04% | C− |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 1369 quarter by quarter
UA 1369 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 63.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 44.4%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 73 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights63.3%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights44.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights47.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights50.0%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights45.6%
Scale runs 35% to 70%.
By weekday, UA 1369 did best on Saturday at 63.3% on time and worst on Wednesday at 39.2%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1369 runs when it is late
The 179 late arrivals split 42 under half an hour, 53 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 84 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early29 flights8.4%
- Within 15 min139 flights40.1%
- 15–29 min late42 flights12.1%
- 30–59 min late53 flights15.3%
- 1–2 hours late56 flights16.1%
- 2+ hours late28 flights8.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 347 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 143 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 11 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 47 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at DCA.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 1369
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 December 2025, 12 hours 20 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 December 2025 | 12 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 June 2026 | 6 hours 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 October 2025 | 4 hours 52 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 August 2026 | 4 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 31 August 2026 | 4 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why UA 1369 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 14,000 reported delay minutes.
- 40%National Airspace System
- 38%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 23 to one. The split is drawn from 13,592 delay minutes reported on UA 1369.
Cancellations run at 3.31%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
24.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 612 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 three other city pairs in the data, including PDX to ORD (45), TPA to ORD (43) and SEA to ORD (31), but none flew often enough under UA 1369 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ORD to DCA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 363 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 1369
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on UA 1369: 3.31% of its 363 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to DCA, every carrier and departure
- DCA to ORD, the return direction
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.