Flight number record

UA 1890

United Airlines · Newark to Raleigh

Route: EWR → RDU
Departs: 07:15
Flights: 306
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1890, check with United Airlines.

UA 1890 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 14 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 306 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 1890's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 144 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

92.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 299 completed flights

Avg delay

73 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.29%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 306 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 1890 flies

UA 1890 flies EWR to RDU without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:15, used on 89 of 306 flights, with 06:40 (78 flights) and 06:45 (62 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:1589 flights29.1%
Departs 06:4078 flights25.5%
Departs 06:4562 flights20.3%

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 07:15 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 1890 runs 3 points better at 92.0%. 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 1890 next to EWR to RDU

Every carrier on EWR to RDU combined arrived on time 76.8% of the time across 1,976 flights, so UA 1890 is 15 points ahead of it. United flew 1,515 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.3% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 13 points.

UA 1890 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 1890thin sample	306	92.0%	73 min	2.29%	A
All United Airlines on EWR–RDU	1,515	76.3%	71 min	2.31%	B
All carriers on EWR–RDU	1,976	76.8%	71 min	3.14%	B−
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 1890 quarter by quarter

UA 1890 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 95.6% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 85.2%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 77 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 202584 flights91.5%
Oct–Dec 202566 flights93.8%
Jan–Mar 202665 flights85.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%

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By weekday, UA 1890 ranged from 86.0% on Sunday to 93.6% on Monday. With about 44 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why UA 1890 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 1,754 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
48%
Carrier
30%
National Airspace System
17%
Extreme weather
4%

48% 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 1,754 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 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 1,754 delay minutes reported on UA 1890.

Cancellations sit at 2.29% 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 3.0% 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 same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including IAH to BZN (19), but none flew often enough under UA 1890 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to EWR to RDU only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 306 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 1890

For a booking, read UA 1890 as 92.0% on time with 2.29% cancelled over 306 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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