Flight number record
UA 2416
United Airlines · San Francisco to Newark
- Route
- SFO → EWR
- Departs
- 23:55
- Flights
- 356
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 356 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 2416 runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 43 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.09%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
9.0%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 356 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
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 356 flights, with 23:25 (59 flights) and 23:20 (48 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 23:55186 flights52.2%
- Departs 23:2559 flights16.6%
- Departs 23:2048 flights13.5%
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 23:55 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and UA 2416 runs 3 points better at 73.3%. 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 2416 next to SFO to EWR
Every carrier on SFO to EWR combined arrived on time 76.4% of the time across 4,401 flights, so UA 2416 is 3 points behind it. United flew 3,790 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.8% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2416thin sample | 356 | 73.3% | 55 min | 3.09% | C− |
| All United Airlines on SFO–EWR | 3,790 | 74.8% | 82 min | 2.24% | C |
| All carriers on SFO–EWR | 4,401 | 76.4% | 80 min | 2.04% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | 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 2025 at 62.2%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 89 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 202585 flights62.2%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights78.0%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights76.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights75.6%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2416 did best on Tuesday at 82.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 66.7%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 2416 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 5,065 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.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 38%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
49% 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 5,065 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 40 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 5,065 delay minutes reported on UA 2416.
Cancellations run at 3.09%, 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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. 356 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: 3.09% of its 356 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
- SFO to EWR, every carrier and departure
- EWR to SFO, the return direction
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- United Airlines 435 on the same route79.9%
- United Airlines 2626 on the same route67.6%
- United Airlines 698 on the same route83.6%
- Alaska Airlines 292 on the same route86.6%
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.