Flight number record
UA 2076
United Airlines · Denver to Minneapolis
- Route
- DEN → MSP
- Departs
- 17:59
- Flights
- 293
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2076, check with United Airlines.
UA 2076 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 293 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 2076 runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 52 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 290 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.68%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
12.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 293 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.4% 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 2076 flies
UA 2076 flies DEN to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:59, used on 43 of 293 flights, with 17:29 (37 flights) and 18:10 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 17:5943 flights14.7%
- Departs 17:2937 flights12.6%
- Departs 18:1037 flights12.6%
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 17:59 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and UA 2076 runs 4 points better at 72.4%. 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 2076 next to DEN to MSP
Every carrier on DEN to MSP combined arrived on time 77.6% of the time across 5,848 flights, so UA 2076 is 5 points behind it. United flew 1,457 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.9% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2076thin sample | 293 | 72.4% | 76 min | 0.68% | C+ |
| All United Airlines on DEN–MSP | 1,457 | 79.9% | 68 min | 0.34% | B+ |
| All carriers on DEN–MSP | 5,848 | 77.6% | 62 min | 0.68% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 2076 quarter by quarter
UA 2076 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 82.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 58.3%, a swing of 24 points on roughly 73 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 202586 flights58.3%
- Oct–Dec 202552 flights76.9%
- Jan–Mar 202664 flights82.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights75.8%
Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2076 did best on Wednesday at 79.1% on time and worst on Sunday at 61.0%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 2076 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 6,078 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.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Carrier
- 21%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
53% 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 6,078 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 53 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 6,078 delay minutes reported on UA 2076.
Cancellations are rare at 0.68%, 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 12.4% 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 680 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 four other city pairs in the data, including SFO to DEN (161), SAN to SFO (37) and PDX to DEN (23), but none flew often enough under UA 2076 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DEN to MSP only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 293 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 2076
For a booking, UA 2076 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 12.4% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to MSP, every carrier and departure
- MSP to DEN, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 1129 on the same route91.2%
- United Airlines 732 on the same route83.5%
- Frontier Airlines 1292 on the same route61.7%
- United Airlines 397 on the same route87.0%
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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.