Flight number record

UA 1992

United Airlines · Newark to Washington

Route: EWR → IAD
Departs: 15:00
Flights: 337
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1992, check with United Airlines.

UA 1992 draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 337 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 1992 runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 124 extra late arrivals.

On time

65.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 330 completed flights

Avg delay

69 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.08%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

11.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 337 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.5% 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 1992 flies

UA 1992 flies EWR to IAD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:00, used on 81 of 337 flights, with 15:08 (78 flights) and 14:55 (49 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:0081 flights24.0%
Departs 15:0878 flights23.1%
Departs 14:5549 flights14.5%

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 15:00 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and UA 1992 runs 7 points worse at 65.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

UA 1992 next to EWR to IAD

Every carrier on EWR to IAD combined arrived on time 73.9% of the time across 1,502 flights, so UA 1992 is 9 points behind it. United flew 1,474 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.9% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 14 points.

UA 1992 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 1992thin sample	337	65.2%	69 min	2.08%	C
All United Airlines on EWR–IAD	1,474	73.9%	75 min	2.24%	C
All carriers on EWR–IAD	1,502	73.9%	75 min	2.33%	C
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 1992 quarter by quarter

UA 1992 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 76.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 55.7%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 84 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 202592 flights55.7%
Oct–Dec 202578 flights57.7%
Jan–Mar 202676 flights70.3%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.7%

Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 1992 did best on Saturday at 75.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 48.9%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 26 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 1992 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 7,965 reported delay minutes.

National Airspace System
41%
Late-arriving aircraft
30%
Carrier
26%
Extreme weather
3%

41% 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 3,233 minutes out of 7,965, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 7,965 delay minutes reported on UA 1992.

Cancellations sit at 2.08% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

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. 11.5% 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 same number turns up on nine other city pairs in the data, including CLE to EWR (52), PHX to EWR (41) and FLL to EWR (37), but none flew often enough under UA 1992 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to EWR to IAD only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 337 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 1992

For a booking, UA 1992 is one of the weaker ways to fly EWR to IAD: 9 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.

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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