Flight number record
UA 1444
United Airlines · Houston to Newark
- Route
- IAH → EWR
- Departs
- 19:55
- Flights
- 358
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1444, check with United Airlines.
UA 1444 lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 358 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
76.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights
Avg delay
57 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.23%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 358 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When UA 1444 flies
UA 1444 flies IAH to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:55, used on 82 of 358 flights, with 20:25 (61 flights) and 20:20 (53 flights) next.
- Departs 19:5582 flights22.9%
- Departs 20:2561 flights17.0%
- Departs 20:2053 flights14.8%
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 19:55 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and UA 1444 runs 8 points better at 76.3%. 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 1444 next to IAH to EWR
Every carrier on IAH to EWR combined arrived on time 75.4% of the time across 3,717 flights, so UA 1444 is about level with it. United flew 3,510 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.2% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1444thin sample | 358 | 76.3% | 57 min | 2.23% | B |
| All United Airlines on IAH–EWR | 3,510 | 75.2% | 72 min | 1.57% | B |
| All carriers on IAH–EWR | 3,717 | 75.4% | 71 min | 1.86% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 1444 quarter by quarter
UA 1444 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 85.9% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 61.4%, a swing of 25 points on roughly 72 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 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights78.9%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights85.9%
- Apr–Jun 202688 flights72.7%
- Jul–Sep 202659 flights61.4%
Scale runs 55% to 90%.
By weekday, UA 1444 did best on Wednesday at 86.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 68.0%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1444 runs when it is late
UA 1444 often beats the schedule: 90 of 350 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 83 late arrivals split 31 under half an hour, 22 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 30 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early90 flights25.7%
- Within 15 min177 flights50.6%
- 15–29 min late31 flights8.9%
- 30–59 min late22 flights6.3%
- 1–2 hours late24 flights6.9%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 350 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
29 of 102 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 28% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 1444
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 March 2026, 4 hours 39 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 March 2026 | 4 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 November 2025 | 2 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 May 2026 | 2 hours 36 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 19 June 2026 | 2 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 September 2025 | 2 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 1444 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 4,721 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Carrier
- 26%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,721 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 18 to one. The split is drawn from 4,721 delay minutes reported on UA 1444.
Cancellations sit at 2.23% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,400 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 two other city pairs in the data, including MSY to IAH (133) and PIT to IAH (133), but none flew often enough under UA 1444 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IAH to EWR only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 358 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 1444
For a booking, read UA 1444 as 76.3% on time with 2.23% cancelled over 358 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
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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.