Flight number record
UA 2444
United Airlines · Newark to Fort Lauderdale
- Route
- EWR → FLL
- Departs
- 09:00
- Flights
- 321
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2444, check with United Airlines.
UA 2444 lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 321 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
79.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 315 completed flights
Avg delay
59 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.56%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 321 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 2444 flies
UA 2444 flies EWR to FLL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:00, used on 85 of 321 flights, with 08:35 (57 flights) and 08:30 (43 flights) next.
- Departs 09:0085 flights26.5%
- Departs 08:3557 flights17.8%
- Departs 08:3043 flights13.4%
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 09:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and UA 2444 runs 4 points worse at 79.7%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
UA 2444 next to EWR to FLL
Every carrier on EWR to FLL combined arrived on time 75.3% of the time across 4,671 flights, so UA 2444 is 4 points ahead of it. United flew 2,723 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.2% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2444thin sample | 321 | 79.7% | 59 min | 1.56% | B |
| All United Airlines on EWR–FLL | 2,723 | 78.2% | 71 min | 2.53% | B |
| All carriers on EWR–FLL | 4,671 | 75.3% | 75 min | 4.02% | B− |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2444 quarter by quarter
UA 2444 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 69.7%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 64 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 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights69.7%
- Jan–Mar 202668 flights81.8%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights85.6%
- Jul–Sep 202641 flights77.5%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
By weekday, UA 2444 did best on Wednesday at 88.9% on time and worst on Saturday at 64.4%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2444 runs when it is late
UA 2444 often beats the schedule: 106 of 315 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 64 late arrivals split 25 under half an hour, 23 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early106 flights33.7%
- Within 15 min145 flights46.0%
- 15–29 min late25 flights7.9%
- 30–59 min late23 flights7.3%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights3.2%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 315 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 34 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. In the other direction, 38 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 FLL.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2444
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 November 2025, 6 hours 2 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 November 2025 | 6 hours 2 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 16 March 2026 | 5 hours 4 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 26 December 2025 | 3 hours 40 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 11 October 2025 | 2 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 December 2025 | 2 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 2444 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 70% of the 3,754 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 70%National Airspace System
- 15%Carrier
- 14%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
70% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 2,644 minutes out of 3,754, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,754 delay minutes reported on UA 2444.
Cancellations sit at 1.56% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.31%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.1% 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 an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,065 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 four other city pairs in the data, including SLC to EWR (32), ORD to JAX (21) and FLL to DEN (21), but none flew often enough under UA 2444 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to EWR to FLL only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 321 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 2444
For a booking, read UA 2444 as 79.7% on time with 1.56% cancelled over 321 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to FLL, every carrier and departure
- FLL to EWR, the return direction
- JetBlue Airways 1505 on the same route81.4%
- United Airlines 1364 on the same route93.8%
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL) delay statistics
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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.