Flight number record
UA 2219
United Airlines · San Juan to Newark
- Route
- SJU → EWR
- Departs
- 02:05
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2219, check with United Airlines.
UA 2219 earns an A. 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 close to two hours. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2219's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 74 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights
Avg delay
115 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.64%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
7.0%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 17 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 2219 flies
UA 2219 flies SJU to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 02:05, used on 127 of 365 flights, with 01:05 (113 flights) and 01:00 (94 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 02:05127 flights34.8%
- Departs 01:05113 flights31.0%
- Departs 01:0094 flights25.8%
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 02:05 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and UA 2219 runs 15 points better at 85.0%. 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 2219 next to SJU to EWR
Every carrier on SJU to EWR combined arrived on time 74.6% of the time across 2,100 flights, so UA 2219 is 10 points ahead of it. United flew 1,113 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.5% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2219 | 365 | 85.0% | 115 min | 1.64% | A |
| All United Airlines on SJU–EWR | 1,113 | 76.5% | 90 min | 2.70% | B |
| All carriers on SJU–EWR | 2,100 | 74.6% | 83 min | 3.14% | C− |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 2219 quarter by quarter
UA 2219 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 92.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 81.1%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 91 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 flights81.1%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights82.6%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights83.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.3%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2219 ranged from 78.8% on Friday to 90.2% on Thursday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why UA 2219 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 82% of the 6,191 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.
- 82%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%Carrier
- 2%National Airspace System
82% 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 6,191 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 82 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 6,191 delay minutes reported on UA 2219.
Cancellations sit at 1.64% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.0% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 1,608 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.
Every one of the 365 flights under UA 2219 in the data flew SJU to EWR. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 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 2219
For a booking, read UA 2219 as 85.0% on time with 1.64% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.