Flight number record
UA 2416
United Airlines · San Francisco to Newark
- Route
- SFO → EWR
- Departs
- 23:55
- Flights
- 360
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2416, check with United Airlines.
UA 2416 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about 50 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 360 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
74.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 351 completed flights
Avg delay
49 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.50%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 360 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 2416 flies
UA 2416 flies SFO to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 23:55, used on 186 of 360 flights, with 23:59 (103 flights) and 23:25 (50 flights) next.
- Departs 23:55186 flights51.7%
- Departs 23:59103 flights28.6%
- Departs 23:2550 flights13.9%
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 23:55 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and UA 2416 runs 5 points better at 74.6%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
UA 2416 next to SFO to EWR
Every carrier on SFO to EWR combined arrived on time 76.8% of the time across 4,348 flights, so UA 2416 is 2 points behind it. United flew 3,861 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.2% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2416thin sample | 360 | 74.6% | 49 min | 2.50% | C |
| All United Airlines on SFO–EWR | 3,861 | 75.2% | 79 min | 2.07% | B |
| All carriers on SFO–EWR | 4,348 | 76.8% | 78 min | 1.95% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2416 quarter by quarter
UA 2416 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 78.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 65.6%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 90 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 202527 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights78.0%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights76.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights75.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights65.6%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2416 did best on Tuesday at 84.0% on time and worst on Wednesday at 68.6%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2416 runs when it is late
UA 2416 often beats the schedule: 100 of 351 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 89 late arrivals split 34 under half an hour, 30 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 25 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early100 flights28.5%
- Within 15 min162 flights46.2%
- 15–29 min late34 flights9.7%
- 30–59 min late30 flights8.5%
- 1–2 hours late19 flights5.4%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 351 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 124 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 53 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 18 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 EWR.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2416
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 October 2025, 2 hours 22 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 October 2025 | 2 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 November 2025 | 2 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 January 2026 | 2 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 January 2026 | 2 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 May 2026 | 2 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 2416 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 4,383 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 41%Carrier
- 15%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
43% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,383 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 30 to one. The split is drawn from 4,383 delay minutes reported on UA 2416.
Cancellations run at 2.50%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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
7.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 2,565 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.
The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including ATL to SFO (59), STL to SFO (53) and RDM to SFO (3), but none flew often enough under UA 2416 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SFO to EWR only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 360 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 2416
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on UA 2416: 2.50% of its 360 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 50 minutes, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- SFO to EWR, every carrier and departure
- EWR to SFO, the return direction
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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.