Flight number record
UA 2444
United Airlines · Newark to Fort Lauderdale
- Route
- EWR → FLL
- Departs
- 09:00
- Flights
- 342
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2444, check with United Airlines.
UA 2444 lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 342 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
80.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 335 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.75%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
4.8%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 342 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 2444 flies
UA 2444 flies EWR to FLL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:00, used on 107 of 342 flights, with 09:05 (63 flights) and 08:30 (42 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 09:00107 flights31.3%
- Departs 09:0563 flights18.4%
- Departs 08:3042 flights12.3%
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 09:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and UA 2444 runs 3 points worse at 80.9%. 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 2444 next to EWR to FLL
Every carrier on EWR to FLL combined arrived on time 75.7% of the time across 4,755 flights, so UA 2444 is 5 points ahead of it. United flew 2,678 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.7% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2444thin sample | 342 | 80.9% | 63 min | 1.75% | B |
| All United Airlines on EWR–FLL | 2,678 | 78.7% | 68 min | 2.17% | B |
| All carriers on EWR–FLL | 4,755 | 75.7% | 75 min | 3.49% | B− |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | 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 86.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 69.7%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 86 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 202592 flights86.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights69.7%
- Jan–Mar 202668 flights81.8%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights85.6%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2444 did best on Wednesday at 91.7% on time and worst on Saturday at 66.7%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 2444 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 64% of the 4,051 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.
- 64%National Airspace System
- 19%Carrier
- 16%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
64% 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 2,580 minutes out of 4,051, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,051 delay minutes reported on UA 2444.
Cancellations sit at 1.75% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.29%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.8% 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 1,065 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. 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 three other city pairs in the data, including SLC to EWR (32), FLL to DEN (21) and ROC to EWR (2), 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. 342 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 80.9% on time with 1.75% cancelled over 342 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
- United Airlines 1364 on the same route91.3%
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL) delay statistics
- United Airlines on-time record
- Every United Airlines flight number with a record
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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.