Flight number record

UA 2446

United Airlines · Denver to New York

Route: DEN → LGA
Departs: 09:54
Flights: 310
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2446, check with United Airlines.

UA 2446 lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly 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 310 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

On time

81.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 303 completed flights

Avg delay

58 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.29%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 310 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Schedule

When UA 2446 flies

UA 2446 flies DEN to LGA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:54, used on 68 of 310 flights, with 10:05 (62 flights) and 09:49 (62 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 09:5468 flights21.9%
Departs 10:0562 flights20.0%
Departs 09:4962 flights20.0%

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 09:54 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and UA 2446 runs 3 points worse at 81.5%. 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 2446 next to DEN to LGA

Every carrier on DEN to LGA combined arrived on time 71.5% of the time across 4,672 flights, so UA 2446 is 10 points ahead of it. United flew 2,017 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.0% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 3 points.

UA 2446 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2446thin sample	310	81.5%	58 min	1.29%	B
All United Airlines on DEN–LGA	2,017	74.0%	69 min	1.83%	C
All carriers on DEN–LGA	4,672	71.5%	68 min	2.74%	C
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 2446 quarter by quarter

UA 2446 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 85.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 74.3%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 78 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 202558 flights78.6%
Oct–Dec 202571 flights74.3%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights84.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.7%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2446 did best on Saturday at 91.9% on time and worst on Thursday at 71.1%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 2446 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 46% of the 3,218 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.

National Airspace System
46%
Carrier
33%
Late-arriving aircraft
20%
Extreme weather
1%

46% 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 1,467 minutes out of 3,218, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,218 delay minutes reported on UA 2446.

Cancellations sit at 1.29% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.97%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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.

At 1,620 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 ONT to DEN (241), FCA to DEN (49) and LGA to ORD (6), but none flew often enough under UA 2446 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DEN to LGA only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 310 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 2446

For a booking, read UA 2446 as 81.5% on time with 1.29% cancelled over 310 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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