Flight number record
UA 1716
United Airlines · Nashville to Denver
- Route
- BNA → DEN
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1716, check with United Airlines.
UA 1716 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1716's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 108 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.82%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
3.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 1716 flies
UA 1716 flies BNA to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 107 of 364 flights, with 08:14 (37 flights) and 08:22 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:00107 flights29.4%
- Departs 08:1437 flights10.2%
- Departs 08:2237 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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 1716 runs level with that at 88.4%. 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 1716 next to BNA to DEN
Every carrier on BNA to DEN combined arrived on time 74.9% of the time across 3,665 flights, so UA 1716 is 14 points ahead of it. United flew 1,168 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.3% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1716thin sample | 364 | 88.4% | 58 min | 0.82% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on BNA–DEN | 1,168 | 79.3% | 77 min | 0.77% | B+ |
| All carriers on BNA–DEN | 3,665 | 74.9% | 61 min | 0.63% | C+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 1716 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 1716 held fairly steady: 89.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 92.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights89.1%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights84.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.3%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1716 did best on Friday at 96.1% on time and worst on Wednesday at 75.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 1716 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 62% of the 2,431 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.
- 62%Carrier
- 28%National Airspace System
- 6%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 62%, 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 1,502 of the 2,431 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,431 delay minutes reported on UA 1716.
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 3.6% 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 1,013 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 one other city pair in the data, including SAV to DEN (1), but none flew often enough under UA 1716 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to BNA 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 1716
For a booking, UA 1716 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 88.4% on time and 0.82% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
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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.