Flight number record
UA 2669
United Airlines · Washington to Newark
- Route
- IAD → EWR
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 271
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2669, check with United Airlines.
UA 2669 earns an A. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 19 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 271 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2669's record is 19 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 189 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
96.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 264 completed flights
Avg delay
85 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.21%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
0.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 271 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 2669 flies
UA 2669 flies IAD to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 205 of 271 flights, with 06:33 (35 flights) and 06:15 (31 flights) next.
- Departs 06:00205 flights75.6%
- Departs 06:3335 flights12.9%
- Departs 06:1531 flights11.4%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 2669 runs 7 points better at 96.2%. 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 2669 next to IAD to EWR
Every carrier on IAD to EWR combined arrived on time 77.1% of the time across 1,560 flights, so UA 2669 is 19 points ahead of it. United flew 1,530 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.1% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 17 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2669thin sample | 271 | 96.2% | 85 min | 2.21% | A |
| All United Airlines on IAD–EWR | 1,530 | 77.1% | 98 min | 2.61% | B |
| All carriers on IAD–EWR | 1,560 | 77.1% | 98 min | 2.76% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2669 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2669 held fairly steady: 94.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 96.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 98.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 20256 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights94.5%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights96.4%
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights98.8%
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2669 ranged from 88.9% on Tuesday to 100.0% on Monday. With about 39 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2669 runs when it is late
UA 2669 often beats the schedule: 119 of 264 completed flights, 45%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 5 of the 10 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 2 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early119 flights45.1%
- Within 15 min135 flights51.1%
- 15–29 min late5 flights1.9%
- 30–59 min late3 flights1.1%
- 1–2 hours late0 flights0.0%
- 2+ hours late2 flights0.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 264 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 9 of 264 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2669
The latest arrival of the period was on 17 October 2025, 7 hours 7 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across October, December, April and September, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 17 October 2025 | 7 hours 7 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 December 2025 | 3 hours 4 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 18 April 2026 | 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 December 2025 | 37 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 September 2025 | 36 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why UA 2669 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 847 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 39%National Airspace System
- 17%Carrier
44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 847 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 44 to one. The split is drawn from 847 delay minutes reported on UA 2669.
Cancellations sit at 2.21% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.37%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 0.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including EWR to ATL (241), EWR to BOS (24) and EWR to TPA (19), but none flew often enough under UA 2669 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IAD to EWR only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 271 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 2669
For a booking, read UA 2669 as 96.2% on time with 2.21% cancelled over 271 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- IAD to EWR, every carrier and departure
- EWR to IAD, the return direction
- United Airlines 1997 on the same route77.6%
- Washington Dulles International (IAD) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 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.