Flight number record
UA 1802
United Airlines · Portland to Newark
- Route
- PDX → EWR
- Departs
- 22:52
- Flights
- 314
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1802, check with United Airlines.
UA 1802 earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 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 314 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1802's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 87 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 307 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.23%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
4.2%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 314 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 1802 flies
UA 1802 flies PDX to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:52, used on 37 of 314 flights, with 23:05 (37 flights) and 23:15 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 22:5237 flights11.8%
- Departs 23:0537 flights11.8%
- Departs 23:1532 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 22:52 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and UA 1802 runs 16 points better at 86.3%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
UA 1802 next to PDX to EWR
Every carrier on PDX to EWR combined arrived on time 83.2% of the time across 870 flights, so UA 1802 is 3 points ahead of it. United flew 521 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.1% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1802thin sample | 314 | 86.3% | 70 min | 2.23% | A |
| All United Airlines on PDX–EWR | 521 | 84.1% | 72 min | 1.92% | B |
| All carriers on PDX–EWR | 870 | 83.2% | 75 min | 1.95% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 1802 quarter by quarter
UA 1802 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 92.9% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 80.2%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 79 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 202543 flights92.9%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights80.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights91.8%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights84.3%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1802 did best on Friday at 97.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 70.7%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 27 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 1802 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 50% of the 2,928 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.
- 50%Carrier
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
34% 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 2,928 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 15 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 2,928 delay minutes reported on UA 1802.
Cancellations sit at 2.23% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
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 8.1% 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.
At 2,434 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including DEN to CMH (31), FLL to DEN (18) and DEN to BIL (18), but none flew often enough under UA 1802 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to PDX to EWR only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 314 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 1802
For a booking, read UA 1802 as 86.3% on time with 2.23% cancelled over 314 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- PDX to EWR, every carrier and departure
- EWR to PDX, the return direction
- Alaska Airlines 294 on the same route80.7%
- Portland International (PDX) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- United Airlines on-time record
- Every United Airlines flight number with a record
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- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.