Flight number record
UA 1890
United Airlines · Newark to Raleigh
- Route
- EWR → RDU
- Departs
- 07:15
- Flights
- 313
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 313 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1890's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 132 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 306 completed flights
Avg delay
89 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.24%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 313 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 1890 flies
UA 1890 flies EWR to RDU without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:15, used on 151 of 313 flights, with 06:40 (78 flights) and 06:45 (49 flights) next.
- Departs 07:15151 flights48.2%
- Departs 06:4078 flights24.9%
- Departs 06:4549 flights15.7%
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 07:15 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 level with that at 90.5%. 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 1890 next to EWR to RDU
Every carrier on EWR to RDU combined arrived on time 75.7% of the time across 1,994 flights, so UA 1890 is 15 points ahead of it. United flew 1,541 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.2% 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 1890thin sample | 313 | 90.5% | 89 min | 2.24% | A |
| All United Airlines on EWR–RDU | 1,541 | 74.2% | 78 min | 2.66% | C |
| All carriers on EWR–RDU | 1,994 | 75.7% | 76 min | 3.41% | B− |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | 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 Jul–Sep 2026 at 85.2%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 78 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 202529 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202566 flights93.8%
- Jan–Mar 202665 flights85.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights85.2%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1890 did best on Friday at 97.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 83.7%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1890 runs when it is late
UA 1890 often beats the schedule: 147 of 306 completed flights, 48%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When UA 1890 is late it tends to be very late: 15 of its 29 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 7 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early147 flights48.0%
- Within 15 min130 flights42.5%
- 15–29 min late4 flights1.3%
- 30–59 min late10 flights3.3%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights2.6%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 306 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
4 of 28 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. Only 5 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 1890
The latest arrival of the period was on 11 April 2026, 4 hours 29 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 11 April 2026 | 4 hours 29 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 July 2026 | 3 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 January 2026 | 3 hours 35 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 July 2026 | 3 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 February 2026 | 2 hours 48 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 1890 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 2,570 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,570 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 17 to one. The split is drawn from 2,570 delay minutes reported on UA 1890.
Cancellations sit at 2.24% against a national 1.89%, 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 4.9% 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 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. 313 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 90.5% on time with 2.24% cancelled over 313 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- EWR to RDU, every carrier and departure
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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.