Flight number record

UA 1774

United Airlines · Fresno to Denver

Route: FAT → DEN
Departs: 05:00
Flights: 307
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1774, check with United Airlines.

UA 1774 earns an A+. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 17 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 307 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 1774's record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 168 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

94.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 306 completed flights

Avg delay

89 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.33%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 307 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 1774 flies

UA 1774 flies FAT to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:00, used on 94 of 307 flights, with 05:30 (80 flights) and 05:25 (73 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 05:0094 flights30.6%
Departs 05:3080 flights26.1%
Departs 05:2573 flights23.8%

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 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 5 points better at 94.4%. 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 1774 next to FAT to DEN

Every carrier on FAT to DEN combined arrived on time 87.8% of the time across 1,450 flights, so UA 1774 is 7 points ahead of it. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 15 points.

UA 1774 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 1774thin sample	307	94.4%	89 min	0.33%	A+
All United Airlines on FAT–DENthin sample	344	93.3%	86 min	0.29%	A+
All carriers on FAT–DEN	1,450	87.8%	70 min	0.07%	A+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 1774 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter UA 1774 held fairly steady: 95.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 92.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 95.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 94.5% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights95.6%
Oct–Dec 202577 flights92.2%
Jan–Mar 202647 flights95.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights94.5%

Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 1774 ranged from 88.4% on Monday to 100.0% on Friday. With about 44 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why UA 1774 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 92% of the 1,510 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.

Carrier
92%
Late-arriving aircraft
5%
National Airspace System
4%

The largest share of delay minutes, 92%, 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 1,384 of the 1,510 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,510 delay minutes reported on UA 1774.

Cancellations are rare at 0.33%, 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 2.9% 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 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. 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 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: 94.4% on time and 0.33% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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