Flight number record
UA 1449
United Airlines · Austin to Newark
- Route
- AUS → EWR
- Departs
- 07:05
- Flights
- 308
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1449, check with United Airlines.
UA 1449 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 15 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 308 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1449's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 153 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
92.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 297 completed flights
Avg delay
104 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.57%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 308 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 1449 flies
UA 1449 flies AUS to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:05, used on 81 of 308 flights, with 08:23 (68 flights) and 08:15 (34 flights) next.
- Departs 07:0581 flights26.3%
- Departs 08:2368 flights22.1%
- Departs 08:1534 flights11.0%
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 07:05 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 1449 runs 3 points better at 92.6%. 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 1449 next to AUS to EWR
Every carrier on AUS to EWR combined arrived on time 77.1% of the time across 2,054 flights, so UA 1449 is 16 points ahead of it. United flew 1,734 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.4% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1449thin sample | 308 | 92.6% | 104 min | 3.57% | A− |
| All United Airlines on AUS–EWR | 1,734 | 80.4% | 95 min | 2.71% | B |
| All carriers on AUS–EWR | 2,054 | 77.1% | 95 min | 3.36% | B− |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 1449 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 1449 held fairly steady: 86.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 95.3% in Jan–Mar 2026, 93.3% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 94.5% 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 202567 flights86.6%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights95.3%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights93.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights94.5%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 1449 ranged from 88.4% on Sunday to 97.7% on Friday. With about 44 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1449 runs when it is late
UA 1449 often beats the schedule: 97 of 297 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 22 late arrivals split 8 under half an hour, 5 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 9 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early97 flights32.7%
- Within 15 min178 flights59.9%
- 15–29 min late8 flights2.7%
- 30–59 min late5 flights1.7%
- 1–2 hours late2 flights0.7%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 297 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
5 of 22 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. Only 5 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 1449
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 December 2025, 6 hours 8 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 December 2025 | 6 hours 8 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 27 October 2025 | 5 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 May 2026 | 4 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 November 2025 | 3 hours 57 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 2 November 2025 | 3 hours 13 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why UA 1449 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 51% of the 2,283 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%National Airspace System
- 32%Carrier
- 15%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
51% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,155 minutes out of 2,283, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,283 delay minutes reported on UA 1449.
Cancellations run at 3.57%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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 3.0% 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 1,504 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 SFO to EWR (31), TUS to SFO (30) and DEN to MSP (1), but none flew often enough under UA 1449 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to AUS to EWR only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 308 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 1449
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on UA 1449: 3.57% of its 308 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs close to two hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- AUS to EWR, every carrier and departure
- EWR to AUS, the return direction
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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.