Flight number record
UA 1716
United Airlines · Nashville to Denver
- Route
- BNA → DEN
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1716's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 111 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.82%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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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 149 of 364 flights, with 08:00 (43 flights) and 08:22 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 07:00149 flights40.9%
- Departs 08:0043 flights11.8%
- Departs 08:2237 flights10.2%
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 07:00 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.
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Against the route
UA 1716 next to BNA to DEN
Every carrier on BNA to DEN combined arrived on time 74.2% of the time across 3,632 flights, so UA 1716 is 14 points ahead of it. United flew 1,181 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.4% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1716thin sample | 364 | 88.4% | 74 min | 0.82% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on BNA–DEN | 1,181 | 79.4% | 86 min | 0.85% | B+ |
| All carriers on BNA–DEN | 3,632 | 74.2% | 64 min | 0.61% | C+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 1716 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 1716 held fairly steady: 90.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 92.3% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 88.7% in Jul–Sep 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 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights84.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.7%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 1716 did best on Friday at 96.1% on time and worst on Wednesday at 80.8%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1716 runs when it is late
UA 1716 often beats the schedule: 115 of 361 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 42 late arrivals split 19 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 15 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early115 flights31.9%
- Within 15 min204 flights56.5%
- 15–29 min late19 flights5.3%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.2%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights2.2%
- 2+ hours late7 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 361 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 39 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 1716
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 August 2026, 10 hours behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2026 | 10 hours | Carrier |
| 25 February 2026 | 5 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 August 2026 | 4 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 January 2026 | 3 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 August 2026 | 2 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why UA 1716 runs late
Carrier accounts for 75% of the 3,122 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 75%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 5%Late-arriving aircraft
- 5%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 75%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,328 of the 3,122 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,122 delay minutes reported on UA 1716.
Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, below the national 1.89% 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 4.2% 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.
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.
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.
Related
Where to go next
- BNA to DEN, every carrier and departure
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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.