Flight number record

UA 2669

United Airlines · Washington to Newark

Route: IAD → EWR
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 320
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 320 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 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 185 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

96.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 311 completed flights

Avg delay

74 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.19%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

0.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 320 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

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 320 flights, with 06:15 (66 flights) and 06:33 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:00205 flights64.1%
Departs 06:1566 flights20.6%
Departs 06:3335 flights10.9%

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 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 96.1%. 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 2669 next to IAD to EWR

Every carrier on IAD to EWR combined arrived on time 75.3% of the time across 1,501 flights, so UA 2669 is 21 points ahead of it. United flew 1,480 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.2% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 17 points.

UA 2669 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2669thin sample	320	96.1%	74 min	2.19%	A
All United Airlines on IAD–EWR	1,480	75.2%	89 min	2.23%	B
All carriers on IAD–EWR	1,501	75.3%	89 min	2.27%	B
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 2669 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter UA 2669 held fairly steady: 94.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 94.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 96.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 98.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202555 flights94.3%
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 88.1% on Tuesday to 100.0% on Monday. With about 46 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why UA 2669 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 42% of the 886 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
42%
National Airspace System
42%
Carrier
16%

42% 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 886 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 42 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 886 delay minutes reported on UA 2669.

Cancellations sit at 2.19% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.62%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 0.6% 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 same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including EWR to ATL (188), EWR to BOS (34) 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. 320 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 96.1% on time with 2.19% cancelled over 320 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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