Flight number record

UA 1611

United Airlines · Newark to Cleveland

Route: EWR → CLE
Departs: 18:59
Flights: 251
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1611, check with United Airlines.

UA 1611 lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 251 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

On time

76.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 247 completed flights

Avg delay

98 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.59%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

13.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 251 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.0% 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 1611 flies

UA 1611 flies EWR to CLE without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:59, used on 47 of 251 flights, with 18:29 (42 flights) and 18:35 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 18:5947 flights18.7%
Departs 18:2942 flights16.7%
Departs 18:3540 flights15.9%

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 18:59 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and UA 1611 runs 8 points better at 76.5%. 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 1611 next to EWR to CLE

Every carrier on EWR to CLE combined arrived on time 79.3% of the time across 2,165 flights, so UA 1611 is 3 points behind it. United flew 1,428 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 3 points.

UA 1611 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 1611thin sample	251	76.5%	98 min	1.59%	B
All United Airlines on EWR–CLE	1,428	74.5%	88 min	2.10%	C
All carriers on EWR–CLE	2,165	79.3%	82 min	2.73%	B
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 1611 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter UA 1611 held fairly steady: 78.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 73.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 77.9% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 20256 flights—
Oct–Dec 202574 flights78.1%
Jan–Mar 202685 flights73.2%
Apr–Jun 202686 flights77.9%

Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 1611 did best on Wednesday at 81.1% on time and worst on Sunday at 60.6%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 1611 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 5,690 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
60%
Carrier
20%
National Airspace System
14%
Extreme weather
6%

60% 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 5,690 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 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 5,690 delay minutes reported on UA 1611.

Cancellations sit at 1.59% 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. 13.0% 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 same number turns up on nine other city pairs in the data, including FLL to EWR (62), SNA to EWR (60) and EWR to BZN (49), but none flew often enough under UA 1611 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to EWR to CLE only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 251 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 1611

For a booking, UA 1611 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 13.0% 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.

Where to go next

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.

Key figures