Flight number record
UA 369
United Airlines · Washington to San Francisco
- Route
- DCA → SFO
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 45 minutes. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 369's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 105 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights
Avg delay
46 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.55%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 363 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 369 flies
UA 369 flies DCA to SFO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 208 of 363 flights, with 07:55 (81 flights) and 07:30 (53 flights) next.
- Departs 07:00208 flights57.3%
- Departs 07:5581 flights22.3%
- Departs 07:3053 flights14.6%
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 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 87.8%. 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 369 next to DCA to SFO
Every carrier on DCA to SFO combined arrived on time 71.9% of the time across 1,090 flights, so UA 369 is 16 points ahead of it. United flew 727 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.8% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 369thin sample | 363 | 87.8% | 46 min | 0.55% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on DCA–SFO | 727 | 74.8% | 68 min | 0.69% | C+ |
| All carriers on DCA–SFO | 1,090 | 71.9% | 65 min | 0.83% | C+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 369 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 369 held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 87.9% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 88.5% in Jul–Sep 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 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights84.8%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights88.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.9%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights88.5%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 369 ranged from 82.7% on Thursday to 92.2% on Wednesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 369 runs when it is late
UA 369 often beats the schedule: 148 of 361 completed flights, 41%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 44 late arrivals split 19 under half an hour, 17 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early148 flights41.0%
- Within 15 min169 flights46.8%
- 15–29 min late19 flights5.3%
- 30–59 min late17 flights4.7%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.7%
- 2+ hours late2 flights0.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 361 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 19 of 361 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 369
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 October 2025, 6 hours 22 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across October, June, August, December and April, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 22 October 2025 | 6 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 June 2026 | 2 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 August 2026 | 1 hour 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 December 2025 | 1 hour 13 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 23 April 2026 | 1 hour 13 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why UA 369 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 55% of the 2,009 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%National Airspace System
- 43%Carrier
- 3%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 858 of the 2,009 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,009 delay minutes reported on UA 369.
Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, below the national 1.89% 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 2.2% 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.
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 SBA (24), SFO to PHX (16) and ICT to IAH (1), 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. 363 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: 87.8% on time and 0.55% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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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.