Flight number record

UA 1741

United Airlines · Albuquerque to Denver

Route: ABQ → DEN
Departs: 14:40
Flights: 280
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1741, check with United Airlines.

UA 1741 earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 280 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 1741's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 68 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 276 completed flights

Avg delay

70 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.07%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 280 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 1741 flies

UA 1741 flies ABQ to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:40, used on 82 of 280 flights, with 13:40 (50 flights) and 13:39 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 14:4082 flights29.3%
Departs 13:4050 flights17.9%
Departs 13:3937 flights13.2%

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 14:40 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and UA 1741 runs 12 points better at 84.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

UA 1741 next to ABQ to DEN

Every carrier on ABQ to DEN combined arrived on time 82.1% of the time across 3,175 flights, so UA 1741 is 2 points ahead of it. United flew 817 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.5% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 5 points.

UA 1741 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 1741thin sample	280	84.4%	70 min	1.07%	B
All United Airlines on ABQ–DEN	817	83.5%	78 min	0.86%	B+
All carriers on ABQ–DEN	3,175	82.1%	63 min	0.72%	B+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 1741 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter UA 1741 held fairly steady: 83.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 87.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 79.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 87.3% 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 202543 flights83.3%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights87.8%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights79.8%
Apr–Jun 202656 flights87.3%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 1741 did best on Tuesday at 95.1% on time and worst on Sunday at 72.5%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 1741 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 2,999 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
56%
National Airspace System
29%
Carrier
15%

56% 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 2,999 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 56 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 2,999 delay minutes reported on UA 1741.

Cancellations sit at 1.07% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.36%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.0% 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 same number turns up on seven other city pairs in the data, including ORD to ABQ (105), ORD to JAC (49) and RIC to ORD (49), but none flew often enough under UA 1741 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ABQ to DEN only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 280 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 1741

For a booking, read UA 1741 as 84.4% on time with 1.07% cancelled over 280 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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.

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