Flight number record
UA 1802
United Airlines · Portland to Newark
- Route
- PDX → EWR
- Departs
- 22:52
- Flights
- 362
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1802, check with United Airlines.
UA 1802 lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 362 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1802's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 58 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights
Avg delay
83 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.21%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 362 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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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 70 of 362 flights, with 23:05 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 22:5270 flights19.3%
- Departs 23:0537 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 22:52 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and UA 1802 runs 13 points better at 83.1%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
UA 1802 next to PDX to EWR
Every carrier on PDX to EWR combined arrived on time 84.3% of the time across 923 flights, so UA 1802 is about level with it. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1802thin sample | 362 | 83.1% | 83 min | 2.21% | B |
| All United Airlines on PDX–EWR | 516 | 82.0% | 88 min | 1.74% | B |
| All carriers on PDX–EWR | 923 | 84.3% | 85 min | 1.73% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 1802 quarter by quarter
UA 1802 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 91.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 68.3%, a swing of 24 points on roughly 91 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 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights80.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights91.8%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights84.3%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights68.3%
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1802 did best on Friday at 94.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 68.8%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1802 runs when it is late
UA 1802 often beats the schedule: 172 of 354 completed flights, 49%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 60 late arrivals split 23 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early172 flights48.6%
- Within 15 min122 flights34.5%
- 15–29 min late23 flights6.5%
- 30–59 min late16 flights4.5%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.4%
- 2+ hours late9 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 354 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 87 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 31 still arrived on time. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 1802
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 August 2026, 13 hours 34 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2026 | 13 hours 34 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 April 2026 | 12 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 July 2026 | 3 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 August 2026 | 3 hours 1 minute | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 December 2025 | 2 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 1802 runs late
Carrier accounts for 48% of the 4,953 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Carrier
- 40%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
40% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,953 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 22 to one. The split is drawn from 4,953 delay minutes reported on UA 1802.
Cancellations sit at 2.21% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
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.
Every one of the 362 flights under UA 1802 in the data flew PDX to EWR. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 362 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 83.1% on time with 2.21% cancelled over 362 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.