Flight number record
UA 2308
United Airlines · Lihue to Denver
- Route
- LIH → DEN
- Departs
- 19:40
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2308, check with United Airlines.
UA 2308 earns an A−. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 19 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 23 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2308's record is 19 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 190 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
96.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 351 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.29%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
0.9%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 23 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 2308 flies
UA 2308 flies LIH to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:40, used on 139 of 365 flights, with 20:30 (103 flights) and 19:35 (94 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 19:40139 flights38.1%
- Departs 20:30103 flights28.2%
- Departs 19:3594 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 19:40 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and UA 2308 runs 28 points better at 96.6%. 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 2308 next to LIH to DEN
Every carrier on LIH to DEN combined arrived on time 96.4% of the time across 379 flights, so UA 2308 is about level with it. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 18 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2308 | 365 | 96.6% | 61 min | 3.29% | A− |
| All United Airlines on LIH–DEN | 379 | 96.4% | 58 min | 3.17% | A− |
| All carriers on LIH–DEN | 379 | 96.4% | 58 min | 3.17% | A− |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 2308 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2308 held fairly steady: 97.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 97.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 92.0% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 98.9% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights97.6%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights97.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights92.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights98.9%
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2308 ranged from 92.2% on Sunday to 98.0% on Monday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 6 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why UA 2308 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 737 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.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
51% 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 737 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 51 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 737 delay minutes reported on UA 2308.
Cancellations run at 3.29%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 0.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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.
At 3,414 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 2308 in the data flew LIH to DEN. 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 2308
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on UA 2308: 3.29% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- United Airlines on-time record
- Every United Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.