Flight number record
UA 1960
United Airlines · Newark to San Francisco
- Route
- EWR → SFO
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 329
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1960, check with United Airlines.
UA 1960 sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about 2.3 hours behind schedule. That rests on 329 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
73.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 316 completed flights
Avg delay
141 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.95%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
15.8%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 329 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.8% 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 1960 flies
UA 1960 flies EWR to SFO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 245 of 329 flights, with 07:05 (52 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:00245 flights74.5%
- Departs 07:0552 flights15.8%
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 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 1960 runs 16 points worse at 73.7%. 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 1960 next to EWR to SFO
Every carrier on EWR to SFO combined arrived on time 69.8% of the time across 4,403 flights, so UA 1960 is 4 points ahead of it. United flew 3,793 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 68.9% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1960thin sample | 329 | 73.7% | 141 min | 3.95% | C− |
| All United Airlines on EWR–SFO | 3,793 | 68.9% | 92 min | 2.53% | C |
| All carriers on EWR–SFO | 4,403 | 69.8% | 89 min | 2.32% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 1960 quarter by quarter
UA 1960 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 78.8% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 65.1%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 82 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 202578 flights74.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights65.1%
- Jan–Mar 202668 flights78.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights77.5%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1960 did best on Thursday at 81.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 61.8%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 1960 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 12,000 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.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 44%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
46% 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 12,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 46 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 11,697 delay minutes reported on UA 1960.
Cancellations run at 3.95%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
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. 15.8% 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.
At 2,565 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
The same number turns up on seven other city pairs in the data, including SFO to LAS (77), EWR to ORD (21) and ORD to IAH (21), but none flew often enough under UA 1960 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to EWR to SFO only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 329 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 1960
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on UA 1960: 3.95% of its 329 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 2.3 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to SFO, every carrier and departure
- SFO to EWR, the return direction
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- United Airlines 1777 on the same route72.4%
- United Airlines 1227 on the same route73.0%
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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.