Flight number record

UA 2412

United Airlines · Baltimore to Denver

Route: BWI → DEN
Departs: 08:30
Flights: 297
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2412, check with United Airlines.

UA 2412 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 13 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 297 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 2412's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 126 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

90.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 295 completed flights

Avg delay

68 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.34%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 297 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 2412 flies

UA 2412 flies BWI to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:30, used on 77 of 297 flights, with 08:15 (54 flights) and 08:00 (52 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:3077 flights25.9%
Departs 08:1554 flights18.2%
Departs 08:0052 flights17.5%

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 08:30 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and UA 2412 runs 6 points better at 90.2%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

UA 2412 next to BWI to DEN

Every carrier on BWI to DEN combined arrived on time 75.6% of the time across 2,867 flights, so UA 2412 is 15 points ahead of it. United flew 902 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.6% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 11 points.

UA 2412 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2412thin sample	297	90.2%	68 min	0.34%	A+
All United Airlines on BWI–DEN	902	85.6%	77 min	0.55%	A+
All carriers on BWI–DEN	2,867	75.6%	59 min	1.12%	B
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 2412 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter UA 2412 held fairly steady: 93.4% in Jul–Sep 2025, 90.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 92.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 86.8% 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 202561 flights93.4%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights90.1%
Jan–Mar 202653 flights92.3%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights86.8%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2412 did best on Monday at 97.7% on time and worst on Thursday at 83.3%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 2412 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 1,969 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
38%
Carrier
35%
National Airspace System
24%
Extreme weather
3%

38% 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 1,969 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 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 1,969 delay minutes reported on UA 2412.

Cancellations are rare at 0.34%, below the national 1.81% 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 2.7% 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.

The 1,491 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including DEN to CID (35), DEN to SAN (31) and MCO to IAH (1), but none flew often enough under UA 2412 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to BWI to DEN only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 297 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 2412

For a booking, UA 2412 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 90.2% on time and 0.34% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.

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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