Flight number record
UA 1774
United Airlines · Fresno to Denver
- Route
- FAT → DEN
- Departs
- 05:00
- Flights
- 307
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1774, check with United Airlines.
UA 1774 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 15 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 307 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1774's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 152 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
92.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 306 completed flights
Avg delay
99 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.33%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 307 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 1774 flies
UA 1774 flies FAT to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:00, used on 156 of 307 flights, with 05:25 (60 flights) and 05:15 (40 flights) next.
- Departs 05:00156 flights50.8%
- Departs 05:2560 flights19.5%
- Departs 05:1540 flights13.0%
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 05:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 1774 runs 3 points better at 92.5%. 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 1774 next to FAT to DEN
Every carrier on FAT to DEN combined arrived on time 88.7% of the time across 1,449 flights, so UA 1774 is 4 points ahead of it. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1774thin sample | 307 | 92.5% | 99 min | 0.33% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on FAT–DENthin sample | 344 | 91.5% | 95 min | 0.29% | A+ |
| All carriers on FAT–DEN | 1,449 | 88.7% | 74 min | 0.07% | A+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 1774 quarter by quarter
UA 1774 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 85.2%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 61 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 202530 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202577 flights92.2%
- Jan–Mar 202647 flights95.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights94.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights85.2%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 1774 did best on Wednesday at 100.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 86.0%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1774 runs when it is late
UA 1774 often beats the schedule: 112 of 306 completed flights, 37%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When UA 1774 is late it tends to be very late: 13 of its 23 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 5 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early112 flights36.6%
- Within 15 min171 flights55.9%
- 15–29 min late6 flights2.0%
- 30–59 min late4 flights1.3%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights2.6%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 306 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
4 of 24 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. Only 3 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 1774
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 August 2026, 9 hours 39 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2026 | 9 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 December 2025 | 5 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 August 2026 | 2 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 April 2026 | 2 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 July 2026 | 2 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why UA 1774 runs late
Carrier accounts for 65% of the 2,272 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 65%Carrier
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 65%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,481 of the 2,272 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,272 delay minutes reported on UA 1774.
Cancellations are rare at 0.33%, 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 844 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 three other city pairs in the data, including TUS to DEN (19), ORD to ROC (1) and BZN to ORD (1), but none flew often enough under UA 1774 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to FAT to DEN only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 307 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 1774
For a booking, UA 1774 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 92.5% on time and 0.33% 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.