Flight number record
UA 1428
United Airlines · Newark to Nashville
- Route
- EWR → BNA
- Departs
- 07:30
- Flights
- 259
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1428, check with United Airlines.
UA 1428 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 259 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1428's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 109 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 252 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.70%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
3.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 259 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 1428 flies
UA 1428 flies EWR to BNA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:30, used on 71 of 259 flights, with 08:30 (42 flights) and 06:52 (33 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:3071 flights27.4%
- Departs 08:3042 flights16.2%
- Departs 06:5233 flights12.7%
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 07:30 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 1428 runs level with that at 88.5%. 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 1428 next to EWR to BNA
Every carrier on EWR to BNA combined arrived on time 75.5% of the time across 1,867 flights, so UA 1428 is 13 points ahead of it. United flew 1,390 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.1% 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 1428thin sample | 259 | 88.5% | 58 min | 2.70% | A |
| All United Airlines on EWR–BNA | 1,390 | 75.1% | 68 min | 2.30% | B |
| All carriers on EWR–BNA | 1,867 | 75.5% | 66 min | 3.00% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 1428 quarter by quarter
UA 1428 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 96.2% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 82.0%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 65 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 202573 flights87.1%
- Oct–Dec 202562 flights82.0%
- Jan–Mar 202645 flights86.0%
- Apr–Jun 202679 flights96.2%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1428 did best on Tuesday at 95.1% on time and worst on Thursday at 78.0%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 1428 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 1,677 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Carrier
- 33%National Airspace System
- 24%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, 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 696 of the 1,677 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,677 delay minutes reported on UA 1428.
Cancellations run at 2.70%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.6% 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 748 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 seven other city pairs in the data, including IAH to LGA (37), DEN to PSP (31) and MSY to DEN (31), but none flew often enough under UA 1428 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to EWR to BNA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 259 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 1428
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on UA 1428: 2.70% of its 259 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to BNA, every carrier and departure
- BNA to EWR, the return direction
- United Airlines 2454 on the same route63.8%
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Nashville International (BNA) delay statistics
- United Airlines on-time record
- Every United Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.