Flight number record
UA 1442
United Airlines · Denver to New York
- Route
- DEN → LGA
- Departs
- 08:15
- Flights
- 297
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1442, check with United Airlines.
UA 1442 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 297 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1442's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 115 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 285 completed flights
Avg delay
65 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 297 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 16 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 1442 flies
UA 1442 flies DEN to LGA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:15, used on 94 of 297 flights, with 08:03 (82 flights) and 08:05 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 08:1594 flights31.6%
- Departs 08:0382 flights27.6%
- Departs 08:0537 flights12.5%
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 08:15 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and UA 1442 runs 5 points better at 88.8%. 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 1442 next to DEN to LGA
Every carrier on DEN to LGA combined arrived on time 71.3% of the time across 4,664 flights, so UA 1442 is 18 points ahead of it. United flew 2,021 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.5% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1442thin sample | 297 | 88.8% | 65 min | 2.36% | A |
| All United Airlines on DEN–LGA | 2,021 | 73.5% | 74 min | 1.78% | C |
| All carriers on DEN–LGA | 4,664 | 71.3% | 70 min | 2.92% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 1442 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 1442 held fairly steady: 83.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.6% in Jan–Mar 2026, 92.3% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 89.1% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Oct–Dec 202564 flights83.3%
- Jan–Mar 202683 flights88.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.3%
- Jul–Sep 202659 flights89.1%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 1442 did best on Wednesday at 95.3% on time and worst on Tuesday at 81.4%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1442 runs when it is late
UA 1442 often beats the schedule: 156 of 285 completed flights, 55%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 32 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 9 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early156 flights54.7%
- Within 15 min97 flights34.0%
- 15–29 min late13 flights4.6%
- 30–59 min late10 flights3.5%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.8%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 285 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 27 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 1442
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 March 2026, 8 hours 36 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. Three of the five worst days fell in March 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 March 2026 | 8 hours 36 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 24 March 2026 | 3 hours 7 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 June 2026 | 2 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 December 2025 | 2 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 March 2026 | 1 hour 32 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why UA 1442 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 2,080 reported delay minutes.
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%National Airspace System
- 26%Extreme weather
- 13%Carrier
Extreme weather accounts for 26% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 4.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,080 delay minutes reported on UA 1442.
Cancellations sit at 2.36% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.68%.
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.
At 1,620 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including OMA to DEN (202), DEN to SMF (31) and ORD to SFO (3), but none flew often enough under UA 1442 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DEN to LGA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 297 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 1442
For a booking, read UA 1442 as 88.8% on time with 2.36% cancelled over 297 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- DEN to LGA, every carrier and departure
- LGA to DEN, the return direction
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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.