Flight number record

UA 369

United Airlines · Washington to San Francisco

Route: DCA → SFO
Departs: 07:00
Flights: 364
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 369, check with United Airlines.

UA 369 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 12 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 45 minutes. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 369's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 116 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 362 completed flights

Avg delay

45 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.55%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

1.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 364 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 369 flies

UA 369 flies DCA to SFO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 270 of 364 flights, with 07:30 (53 flights) and 07:55 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:00270 flights74.2%
Departs 07:3053 flights14.6%
Departs 07:5541 flights11.3%

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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 369 runs level with that at 89.2%. 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 369 next to DCA to SFO

Every carrier on DCA to SFO combined arrived on time 74.0% of the time across 1,093 flights, so UA 369 is 15 points ahead of it. United flew 729 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.9% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 10 points.

UA 369 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 369thin sample	364	89.2%	45 min	0.55%	A+
All United Airlines on DCA–SFO	729	76.9%	70 min	1.23%	B
All carriers on DCA–SFO	1,093	74.0%	69 min	1.19%	C
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 369 quarter by quarter

UA 369 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 95.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 84.8%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 91 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 flights95.7%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights84.8%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights88.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.9%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 369 ranged from 82.7% on Thursday to 94.1% on Sunday. With about 52 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.

Delay causes

Why UA 369 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 56% of the 1,742 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
56%
Carrier
44%

The largest share of delay minutes, 44%, 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 762 of the 1,742 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,742 delay minutes reported on UA 369.

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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.7% 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.

At 2,442 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 SFO to SAN (49), SFO to SBA (37) and SFO to PHX (16), but none flew often enough under UA 369 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DCA to SFO only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 364 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 369

For a booking, UA 369 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 89.2% on time and 0.55% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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