Flight number record
UA 1666
United Airlines · Cincinnati to Denver
- Route
- CVG → DEN
- Departs
- 09:00
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1666, check with United Airlines.
UA 1666 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1666's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 97 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights
Avg delay
86 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.82%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
4.7%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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.
Schedule
When UA 1666 flies
UA 1666 flies CVG to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:00, used on 165 of 364 flights, with 08:00 (133 flights) and 09:32 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 09:00165 flights45.3%
- Departs 08:00133 flights36.5%
- Departs 09:3237 flights10.2%
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 09:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and UA 1666 runs 3 points better at 87.3%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
UA 1666 next to CVG to DEN
Every carrier on CVG to DEN combined arrived on time 81.6% of the time across 1,521 flights, so UA 1666 is 6 points ahead of it. United flew 728 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.8% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1666thin sample | 364 | 87.3% | 86 min | 0.82% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on CVG–DEN | 728 | 85.8% | 81 min | 0.69% | A+ |
| All carriers on CVG–DEN | 1,521 | 81.6% | 77 min | 0.99% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 1666 quarter by quarter
UA 1666 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 91.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 79.8%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 91 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 flights90.2%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights87.9%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights79.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.0%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1666 did best on Sunday at 98.0% on time and worst on Friday at 76.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 1666 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 66% of the 3,955 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.
- 66%Carrier
- 25%National Airspace System
- 8%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 66%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,608 of the 3,955 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,955 delay minutes reported on UA 1666.
Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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.
The 1,069 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 DEN to CLT (33) and XNA to DEN (1), but none flew often enough under UA 1666 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to CVG to DEN only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 364 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 1666
For a booking, UA 1666 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.3% on time and 0.82% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- CVG to DEN, every carrier and departure
- DEN to CVG, 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.