Flight number record
UA 1565
United Airlines · Denver to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- DEN → DFW
- Departs
- 17:30
- Flights
- 332
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1565, check with United Airlines.
UA 1565 draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 332 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 1565 runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 110 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 326 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.20%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
13.8%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 332 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.8% 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 1565 flies
UA 1565 flies DEN to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:30, used on 86 of 332 flights, with 17:38 (66 flights) and 17:42 (48 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 17:3086 flights25.9%
- Departs 17:3866 flights19.9%
- Departs 17:4248 flights14.5%
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 17:30 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and UA 1565 runs level with that at 66.6%. 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 1565 next to DEN to DFW
Every carrier on DEN to DFW combined arrived on time 75.0% of the time across 6,029 flights, so UA 1565 is 8 points behind it. United flew 1,902 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.2% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1565thin sample | 332 | 66.6% | 74 min | 1.20% | C |
| All United Airlines on DEN–DFW | 1,902 | 77.2% | 69 min | 0.79% | B+ |
| All carriers on DEN–DFW | 6,029 | 75.0% | 85 min | 2.07% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 1565 quarter by quarter
UA 1565 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 78.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 51.1%, a swing of 27 points on roughly 83 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 flights51.1%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights76.7%
- Jan–Mar 202687 flights78.6%
- Apr–Jun 202662 flights58.1%
Scale runs 45% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1565 did best on Wednesday at 81.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 51.1%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 31 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 1565 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 8,048 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.
- 58%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%National Airspace System
- 14%Carrier
- 3%Extreme weather
58% 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 8,048 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 18 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 8,048 delay minutes reported on UA 1565.
Cancellations sit at 1.20% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.60%.
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. 13.8% 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 641 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 three other city pairs in the data, including SAN to DEN (107), ORD to CLE (28) and MEM to DEN (19), but none flew often enough under UA 1565 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DEN to DFW only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 332 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 1565
For a booking, UA 1565 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 13.8% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to DEN, the return direction
- American Airlines 420 on the same route68.9%
- United Airlines 1350 on the same route84.5%
- American Airlines 1523 on the same route81.4%
- American Airlines 1832 on the same route57.7%
- Frontier Airlines 1324 on the same route89.6%
- American Airlines 852 on the same route77.6%
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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.