Flight number record
UA 2049
United Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Denver
- Route
- DFW → DEN
- Departs
- 11:05
- Flights
- 283
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2049, check with United Airlines.
UA 2049 earns a B+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 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 283 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2049's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 70 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 281 completed flights
Avg delay
91 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.35%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 283 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 2049 flies
UA 2049 flies DFW to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:05, used on 91 of 283 flights, with 11:35 (70 flights) and 11:15 (39 flights) next.
- Departs 11:0591 flights32.2%
- Departs 11:3570 flights24.7%
- Departs 11:1539 flights13.8%
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 11:05 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and UA 2049 runs 6 points better at 84.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
UA 2049 next to DFW to DEN
Every carrier on DFW to DEN combined arrived on time 70.5% of the time across 6,059 flights, so UA 2049 is 14 points ahead of it. United flew 1,877 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.7% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2049thin sample | 283 | 84.3% | 91 min | 0.35% | B+ |
| All United Airlines on DFW–DEN | 1,877 | 77.7% | 82 min | 1.01% | B |
| All carriers on DFW–DEN | 6,059 | 70.5% | 75 min | 1.93% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2049 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2049 held fairly steady: 79.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 83.8% in Jan–Mar 2026, 84.3% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 88.1% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202521 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202544 flights79.5%
- Jan–Mar 202675 flights83.8%
- Apr–Jun 202684 flights84.3%
- Jul–Sep 202659 flights88.1%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2049 ranged from 80.9% on Sunday to 87.5% on Wednesday. With about 40 flights behind each day, a spread of 7 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2049 runs when it is late
UA 2049 often beats the schedule: 92 of 281 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 44 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early92 flights32.7%
- Within 15 min145 flights51.6%
- 15–29 min late15 flights5.3%
- 30–59 min late13 flights4.6%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights2.8%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 281 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 36 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 1 made it up before arrival. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2049
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 July 2026, 9 hours 14 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 July 2026 | 9 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 August 2026 | 7 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 July 2026 | 6 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 June 2026 | 4 hours 1 minute | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 January 2026 | 3 hours 48 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 2049 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 3,984 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 25%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
43% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,984 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 25 to one. The split is drawn from 3,984 delay minutes reported on UA 2049.
Cancellations are rare at 0.35%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 641 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.
The same number turns up on seven other city pairs in the data, including SAT to DEN (31), DEN to MKE (22) and DEN to TUS (21), but none flew often enough under UA 2049 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DFW to DEN only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 283 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 2049
For a booking, read UA 2049 as 84.3% on time with 0.35% cancelled over 283 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to DEN, every carrier and departure
- DEN to DFW, the return direction
- American Airlines 420 on the same route74.7%
- American Airlines 1832 on the same route60.0%
- Frontier Airlines 2147 on the same route90.7%
- American Airlines 1322 on the same route47.4%
- American Airlines 577 on the same route51.3%
- United Airlines 248 on the same route81.8%
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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.