Flight number record
UA 1847
United Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Newark
- Route
- DFW → EWR
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 284
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1847, check with United Airlines.
UA 1847 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 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 55 minutes. That rests on 284 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1847's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 131 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 280 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.06%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 284 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When UA 1847 flies
UA 1847 flies DFW to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 102 of 284 flights, with 06:00 (58 flights) and 07:15 (54 flights) next.
- Departs 07:00102 flights35.9%
- Departs 06:0058 flights20.4%
- Departs 07:1554 flights19.0%
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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 1847 runs level with that at 90.4%. 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 1847 next to DFW to EWR
Every carrier on DFW to EWR combined arrived on time 72.9% of the time across 3,633 flights, so UA 1847 is 18 points ahead of it. United flew 1,805 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.3% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1847thin sample | 284 | 90.4% | 55 min | 1.06% | A |
| All United Airlines on DFW–EWR | 1,805 | 78.3% | 88 min | 2.83% | B |
| All carriers on DFW–EWR | 3,633 | 72.9% | 82 min | 3.39% | C− |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 1847 quarter by quarter
UA 1847 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 84.4%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 71 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 202578 flights84.4%
- Jan–Mar 202627 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202687 flights91.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights91.7%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1847 did best on Thursday at 97.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 80.0%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1847 runs when it is late
UA 1847 often beats the schedule: 102 of 280 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 14 of the 27 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 9 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early102 flights36.4%
- Within 15 min151 flights53.9%
- 15–29 min late14 flights5.0%
- 30–59 min late4 flights1.4%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights2.9%
- 2+ hours late1 flights0.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 280 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 24 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 29% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 1847
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 November 2025, 5 hours 28 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. Three of the five worst days fell in November 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 November 2025 | 5 hours 28 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 19 June 2026 | 1 hour 58 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 11 November 2025 | 1 hour 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 July 2026 | 1 hour 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 November 2025 | 1 hour 19 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why UA 1847 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 51% of the 1,475 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%National Airspace System
- 35%Carrier
- 14%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 14% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,475 delay minutes reported on UA 1847.
Cancellations sit at 1.06% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.35%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.2% 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 1,372 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 six other city pairs in the data, including EWR to SNA (169), DEN to SDF (37) and EWR to CHS (26), but none flew often enough under UA 1847 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DFW to EWR only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 284 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 1847
For a booking, UA 1847 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 90.4% on time and 1.06% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to EWR, every carrier and departure
- EWR to DFW, the return direction
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) 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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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.