Flight number record
UA 2272
United Airlines · Minneapolis to Denver
- Route
- MSP → DEN
- Departs
- 16:51
- Flights
- 311
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2272, check with United Airlines.
UA 2272 draws a C+. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 311 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so UA 2272 runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 116 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
65.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 309 completed flights
Avg delay
88 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.32%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
18.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 311 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When UA 2272 flies
UA 2272 flies MSP to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:51, used on 79 of 311 flights, with 16:52 (57 flights) and 16:55 (48 flights) next.
- Departs 16:5179 flights25.4%
- Departs 16:5257 flights18.3%
- Departs 16:5548 flights15.4%
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 16:51 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and UA 2272 runs 6 points worse at 65.7%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
UA 2272 next to MSP to DEN
Every carrier on MSP to DEN combined arrived on time 77.8% of the time across 5,811 flights, so UA 2272 is 12 points behind it. United flew 1,483 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.9% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2272thin sample | 311 | 65.7% | 88 min | 0.32% | C+ |
| All United Airlines on MSP–DEN | 1,483 | 78.9% | 79 min | 0.54% | B+ |
| All carriers on MSP–DEN | 5,811 | 77.8% | 70 min | 0.77% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2272 quarter by quarter
UA 2272 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 71.9% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 50.0%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 78 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 202524 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202566 flights67.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights71.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights65.9%
- Jul–Sep 202640 flights50.0%
Scale runs 40% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2272 did best on Friday at 72.1% on time and worst on Wednesday at 59.1%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2272 runs when it is late
When UA 2272 is late it tends to be very late: 58 of its 106 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 23 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early64 flights20.7%
- Within 15 min139 flights45.0%
- 15–29 min late26 flights8.4%
- 30–59 min late22 flights7.1%
- 1–2 hours late35 flights11.3%
- 2+ hours late23 flights7.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 309 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 99 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. In the other direction, 21 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at DEN.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2272
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 July 2026, 6 hours 41 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 27 July 2026 | 6 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 March 2026 | 6 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 June 2026 | 5 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 July 2026 | 5 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 December 2025 | 4 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 2272 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 9,346 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 40%National Airspace System
- 17%Carrier
- 0%Extreme weather
43% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,346 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 43 to one. The split is drawn from 9,346 delay minutes reported on UA 2272.
Cancellations are rare at 0.32%, 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
18.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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.
The same number turns up on five other city pairs in the data, including SFO to MSP (77), DEN to PSC (37) and EWR to DEN (31), but none flew often enough under UA 2272 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MSP to DEN only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 311 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 2272
For a booking, UA 2272 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 18.8% 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.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to DEN, every carrier and departure
- DEN to MSP, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 1025 on the same route78.7%
- United Airlines 1891 on the same route83.9%
- Delta Air Lines 2931 on the same route65.4%
- Frontier Airlines 1149 on the same route77.0%
- Delta Air Lines 2849 on the same route80.2%
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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.