Flight number record
UA 1900
United Airlines · Newark to Orlando
- Route
- EWR → MCO
- Departs
- 17:29
- Flights
- 278
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1900, check with United Airlines.
UA 1900 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 278 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
77.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 274 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.08%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
9.1%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 278 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When UA 1900 flies
UA 1900 flies EWR to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:29, used on 166 of 278 flights, with 16:55 (41 flights) and 17:50 (30 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 17:29166 flights59.7%
- Departs 16:5541 flights14.7%
- Departs 17:5030 flights10.8%
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 17:29 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and UA 1900 runs 10 points better at 77.7%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
UA 1900 next to EWR to MCO
Every carrier on EWR to MCO combined arrived on time 77.1% of the time across 6,629 flights, so UA 1900 is about level with it. United flew 4,014 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.4% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1900thin sample | 278 | 77.7% | 75 min | 1.08% | B |
| All United Airlines on EWR–MCO | 4,014 | 79.4% | 76 min | 1.82% | B |
| All carriers on EWR–MCO | 6,629 | 77.1% | 81 min | 2.88% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 1900 quarter by quarter
UA 1900 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 89.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 72.4%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 93 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 20256 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights73.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights72.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights89.0%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1900 did best on Tuesday at 87.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 63.2%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 1900 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 4,562 reported delay minutes.
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%National Airspace System
- 25%Carrier
- 8%Extreme weather
35% 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 4,562 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 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 4,562 delay minutes reported on UA 1900.
Cancellations sit at 1.08% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.36%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 937 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 three other city pairs in the data, including SNA to EWR (170), SEA to EWR (62) and MCO to DEN (4), but none flew often enough under UA 1900 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to EWR to MCO only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 278 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 1900
For a booking, read UA 1900 as 77.7% on time with 1.08% cancelled over 278 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to MCO, every carrier and departure
- MCO to EWR, the return direction
- United Airlines 1213 on the same route72.3%
- JetBlue Airways 927 on the same route89.2%
- JetBlue Airways 127 on the same route74.0%
- JetBlue Airways 1827 on the same route65.0%
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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.