Flight number record
UA 2049
United Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Denver
- Route
- DFW → DEN
- Departs
- 11:05
- Flights
- 275
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 275 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2049's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 66 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 272 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.73%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
5.5%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 275 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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.
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 132 of 275 flights, with 11:15 (49 flights) and 11:00 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 11:05132 flights48.0%
- Departs 11:1549 flights17.8%
- Departs 11:0036 flights13.1%
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 11:05 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and UA 2049 runs 5 points better at 84.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
UA 2049 next to DFW to DEN
Every carrier on DFW to DEN combined arrived on time 69.4% of the time across 6,025 flights, so UA 2049 is 15 points ahead of it. United flew 1,901 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.7% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2049thin sample | 275 | 84.2% | 65 min | 0.73% | B+ |
| All United Airlines on DFW–DEN | 1,901 | 75.7% | 78 min | 1.21% | B |
| All carriers on DFW–DEN | 6,025 | 69.4% | 75 min | 2.32% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 2049 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2049 held fairly steady: 87.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 79.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 83.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 84.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202572 flights87.3%
- Oct–Dec 202544 flights79.5%
- Jan–Mar 202675 flights83.8%
- Apr–Jun 202684 flights84.3%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2049 ranged from 81.0% on Tuesday to 92.5% on Wednesday. With about 39 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why UA 2049 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 2,805 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.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%National Airspace System
- 12%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
51% 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 2,805 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 21 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 2,805 delay minutes reported on UA 2049.
Cancellations are rare at 0.73%, below the national 1.81% 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
5.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, 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. 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 seven other city pairs in the data, including SAT to DEN (31), DEN to PIT (29) and DEN to MKE (22), 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. 275 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 84.2% on time with 0.73% cancelled over 275 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
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- Frontier Airlines 2147 on the same route90.5%
- American Airlines 1832 on the same route60.3%
- American Airlines 1322 on the same route45.2%
- American Airlines 577 on the same route51.0%
- American Airlines 1523 on the same route78.5%
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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.