Flight number record
UA 1847
United Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Newark
- Route
- DFW → EWR
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 284
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 284 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1847's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 120 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 280 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.06%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
3.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 284 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 1847 flies
UA 1847 flies DFW to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 163 of 284 flights, with 07:15 (54 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:00163 flights57.4%
- Departs 07:1554 flights19.0%
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 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 89.6%. 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 1847 next to DFW to EWR
Every carrier on DFW to EWR combined arrived on time 71.4% of the time across 3,572 flights, so UA 1847 is 18 points ahead of it. United flew 1,758 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.1% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1847thin sample | 284 | 89.6% | 58 min | 1.06% | A |
| All United Airlines on DFW–EWR | 1,758 | 77.1% | 91 min | 2.62% | B |
| All carriers on DFW–EWR | 3,572 | 71.4% | 84 min | 3.33% | C− |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 1847 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 1847 held fairly steady: 91.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.4% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 91.9% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights91.1%
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights84.4%
- Jan–Mar 202627 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202687 flights91.9%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. 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.
Delay causes
Why UA 1847 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 63% of the 1,692 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.
- 63%National Airspace System
- 27%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
63% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,064 minutes out of 1,692, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 1,692 delay minutes reported on UA 1847.
Cancellations sit at 1.06% against a national 1.81%, 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 3.6% 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 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. 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 six other city pairs in the data, including EWR to SNA (148), 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: 89.6% 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
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.