Flight number record

UA 2130

United Airlines · Denver to Memphis

Route: DEN → MEM
Departs: 17:25
Flights: 328
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2130, check with United Airlines.

UA 2130 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 328 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 2130 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 56 extra late arrivals.

On time

72.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 325 completed flights

Avg delay

81 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.61%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

12.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 328 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.3% 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 2130 flies

UA 2130 flies DEN to MEM without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:25, used on 114 of 328 flights, with 17:30 (61 flights) and 18:50 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 17:25114 flights34.8%
Departs 17:3061 flights18.6%
Departs 18:5035 flights10.7%

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 17:25 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and UA 2130 runs 4 points better at 72.0%. 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 2130 next to DEN to MEM

Every carrier on DEN to MEM combined arrived on time 75.7% of the time across 1,333 flights, so UA 2130 is 4 points behind it. United flew 728 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.0% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 7 points.

UA 2130 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2130thin sample	328	72.0%	81 min	0.61%	C+
All United Airlines on DEN–MEM	728	81.0%	73 min	0.82%	B+
All carriers on DEN–MEM	1,333	75.7%	66 min	0.83%	B+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 2130 quarter by quarter

UA 2130 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 80.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 58.7%, a swing of 22 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 202592 flights58.7%
Oct–Dec 202555 flights76.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights74.4%

Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2130 did best on Sunday at 84.4% on time and worst on Friday at 55.3%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 29 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 2130 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 7,396 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
54%
Carrier
32%
National Airspace System
13%
Extreme weather
1%

54% 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 7,396 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 54 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 7,396 delay minutes reported on UA 2130.

Cancellations are rare at 0.61%, 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. 12.3% 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 872 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 one other city pair in the data, including DTW to DEN (36), but none flew often enough under UA 2130 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DEN to MEM only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 328 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 2130

For a booking, UA 2130 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 12.3% 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.

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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