Flight number record

UA 2168

United Airlines · Denver to New York

Route: DEN → LGA
Departs: 16:00
Flights: 259
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2168, check with United Airlines.

UA 2168 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 259 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 2168 runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 92 extra late arrivals.

On time

68.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 253 completed flights

Avg delay

79 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.54%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

13.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 259 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.8% 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 2168 flies

UA 2168 flies DEN to LGA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:00, used on 87 of 259 flights, with 16:10 (47 flights) and 15:45 (46 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 16:0087 flights33.6%
Departs 16:1047 flights18.1%
Departs 15:4546 flights17.8%

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 16:00 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and UA 2168 runs 4 points worse at 68.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

UA 2168 next to DEN to LGA

Every carrier on DEN to LGA combined arrived on time 71.5% of the time across 4,672 flights, so UA 2168 is 3 points behind it. United flew 2,017 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.0% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 11 points.

UA 2168 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2168thin sample	259	68.4%	79 min	1.54%	C
All United Airlines on DEN–LGA	2,017	74.0%	69 min	1.83%	C
All carriers on DEN–LGA	4,672	71.5%	68 min	2.74%	C
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 2168 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter UA 2168 held fairly steady: 71.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 71.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 62.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 70.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202553 flights71.7%
Oct–Dec 202548 flights71.7%
Jan–Mar 202677 flights62.2%
Apr–Jun 202681 flights70.0%

Scale runs 55% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2168 did best on Monday at 73.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 57.9%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 2168 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 60% of the 6,289 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.

National Airspace System
60%
Late-arriving aircraft
31%
Carrier
7%
Extreme weather
2%

60% 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 3,758 minutes out of 6,289, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 6,289 delay minutes reported on UA 2168.

Cancellations sit at 1.54% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.77%.

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. 13.8% 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.

At 1,620 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.

The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including SFO to IAH (118), IAH to DEN (118) and SNA to DEN (49), but none flew often enough under UA 2168 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DEN to LGA only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 259 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 2168

For a booking, UA 2168 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 13.8% 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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