Flight number record
UA 1444
United Airlines · Houston to Newark
- Route
- IAH → EWR
- Departs
- 20:25
- Flights
- 361
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1444, check with United Airlines.
UA 1444 sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
75.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 353 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.22%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
9.3%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When UA 1444 flies
UA 1444 flies IAH to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:25, used on 74 of 361 flights, with 20:20 (53 flights) and 20:24 (49 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 20:2574 flights20.5%
- Departs 20:2053 flights14.7%
- Departs 20:2449 flights13.6%
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 20:25 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and UA 1444 runs 5 points better at 75.4%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
UA 1444 next to IAH to EWR
Every carrier on IAH to EWR combined arrived on time 74.6% of the time across 3,800 flights, so UA 1444 is about level with it. United flew 3,534 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.5% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1444thin sample | 361 | 75.4% | 67 min | 2.22% | B |
| All United Airlines on IAH–EWR | 3,534 | 74.5% | 72 min | 1.56% | C |
| All carriers on IAH–EWR | 3,800 | 74.6% | 71 min | 1.89% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | 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 2025 at 64.4%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 90 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 202592 flights64.4%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights78.9%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights85.9%
- Apr–Jun 202688 flights72.7%
Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1444 did best on Wednesday at 82.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 64.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 1444 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 5,851 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 36%Carrier
- 15%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 5,851 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 30 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 5,851 delay minutes reported on UA 1444.
Cancellations sit at 2.22% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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. 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 two other city pairs in the data, including MSY to IAH (115) and PIT to IAH (93), 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. 361 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 75.4% on time with 2.22% cancelled over 361 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.