Flight number record
UA 2269
United Airlines · Denver to Raleigh
- Route
- DEN → RDU
- Departs
- 09:50
- Flights
- 348
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2269, check with United Airlines.
UA 2269 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 348 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2269's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 108 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights
Avg delay
57 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.29%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 348 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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.
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Schedule
When UA 2269 flies
UA 2269 flies DEN to RDU without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:50, used on 97 of 348 flights, with 09:49 (82 flights) and 09:44 (45 flights) next.
- Departs 09:5097 flights27.9%
- Departs 09:4982 flights23.6%
- Departs 09:4445 flights12.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 09:50 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and UA 2269 runs 4 points better at 88.1%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
UA 2269 next to DEN to RDU
Every carrier on DEN to RDU combined arrived on time 76.0% of the time across 1,732 flights, so UA 2269 is 12 points ahead of it. United flew 727 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.3% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2269thin sample | 348 | 88.1% | 57 min | 0.29% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on DEN–RDU | 727 | 82.3% | 66 min | 0.41% | B+ |
| All carriers on DEN–RDU | 1,732 | 76.0% | 57 min | 0.69% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2269 quarter by quarter
UA 2269 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 94.4% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 82.9%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 70 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 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202576 flights82.9%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights83.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights94.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights90.2%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 2269 did best on Monday at 94.1% on time and worst on Thursday at 78.0%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2269 runs when it is late
UA 2269 often beats the schedule: 93 of 345 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 21 of the 41 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 12 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early93 flights27.0%
- Within 15 min211 flights61.2%
- 15–29 min late21 flights6.1%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.3%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.0%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 345 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 32 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2269
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 December 2025, 5 hours 40 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 December 2025 | 5 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 April 2026 | 3 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 July 2026 | 3 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 January 2026 | 2 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 March 2026 | 2 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 2269 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 2,341 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 24%National Airspace System
41% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,341 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 41 to one. The split is drawn from 2,341 delay minutes reported on UA 2269.
Cancellations are rare at 0.29%, below the national 1.89% 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.5% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 1,436 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.
The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including SEA to DEN (108) and DEN to BOS (16), but none flew often enough under UA 2269 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DEN to RDU only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 348 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 2269
For a booking, UA 2269 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 88.1% on time and 0.29% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to RDU, every carrier and departure
- RDU to DEN, the return direction
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.