Flight number record

UA 302

United Airlines · Detroit to Denver

Route: DTW → DEN
Departs: 15:32
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 302, check with United Airlines.

UA 302 lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 302's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 45 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 358 completed flights

Avg delay

82 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.55%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 302 flies

UA 302 flies DTW to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:32, used on 41 of 365 flights, with 16:45 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:3241 flights11.2%
Departs 16:4537 flights10.1%

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 15:32 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and UA 302 runs 10 points better at 82.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

UA 302 next to DTW to DEN

Every carrier on DTW to DEN combined arrived on time 79.7% of the time across 3,089 flights, so UA 302 is 2 points ahead of it. United flew 727 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.7% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 3 points.

UA 302 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 302	365	82.1%	82 min	0.55%	B+
All United Airlines on DTW–DEN	727	83.7%	72 min	0.69%	B+
All carriers on DTW–DEN	3,089	79.7%	61 min	0.49%	B+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 302 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter UA 302 held fairly steady: 81.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 79.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 80.0% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 87.6% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights81.8%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights79.1%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.0%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.6%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 302 ranged from 78.8% on Wednesday to 86.3% on Saturday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why UA 302 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 43% of the 5,222 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.

Carrier
43%
National Airspace System
36%
Late-arriving aircraft
19%
Extreme weather
3%

The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,228 of the 5,222 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,222 delay minutes reported on UA 302.

Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

7.5% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 1,123 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.

Every one of the 365 flights under UA 302 in the data flew DTW to DEN. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 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 302

For a booking, read UA 302 as 82.1% on time with 0.55% cancelled over 365 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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