Flight number record
UA 1428
United Airlines · Newark to Nashville
- Route
- EWR → BNA
- Departs
- 07:30
- Flights
- 254
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 254 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1428's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 130 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 248 completed flights
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.36%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 254 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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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 254 flights, with 06:52 (58 flights) and 06:00 (32 flights) next.
- Departs 07:3071 flights28.0%
- Departs 06:5258 flights22.8%
- Departs 06:0032 flights12.6%
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 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 90.3%. 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 1428 next to EWR to BNA
Every carrier on EWR to BNA combined arrived on time 74.1% of the time across 1,882 flights, so UA 1428 is 16 points ahead of it. United flew 1,477 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.2% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1428thin sample | 254 | 90.3% | 60 min | 2.36% | A |
| All United Airlines on EWR–BNA | 1,477 | 73.2% | 72 min | 2.84% | C |
| All carriers on EWR–BNA | 1,882 | 74.1% | 69 min | 3.29% | C− |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | 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 64 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 202521 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202562 flights82.0%
- Jan–Mar 202645 flights86.0%
- Apr–Jun 202679 flights96.2%
- Jul–Sep 202647 flights91.3%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1428 ranged from 83.3% on Monday to 95.2% on Sunday. With about 36 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1428 runs when it is late
UA 1428 often beats the schedule: 105 of 248 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 24 late arrivals split 8 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early105 flights42.3%
- Within 15 min119 flights48.0%
- 15–29 min late8 flights3.2%
- 30–59 min late8 flights3.2%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights2.4%
- 2+ hours late2 flights0.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 248 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 16 of 248 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 1428
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 June 2026, 4 hours 29 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across June, December, November and March, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 June 2026 | 4 hours 29 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 December 2025 | 2 hours 29 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 4 November 2025 | 1 hour 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 December 2025 | 1 hour 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 March 2026 | 1 hour 33 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why UA 1428 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 43% of the 1,441 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%National Airspace System
- 34%Carrier
- 20%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 34%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 496 of the 1,441 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,441 delay minutes reported on UA 1428.
Cancellations sit at 2.36% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.2% 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 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.
The same number turns up on five 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. 254 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, read UA 1428 as 90.3% on time with 2.36% cancelled over 254 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.