Flight number record

UA 444

United Airlines · Washington to Hartford

Route: IAD → BDL
Departs: 22:25
Flights: 342
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 444, check with United Airlines.

UA 444 lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 342 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

On time

80.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 338 completed flights

Avg delay

61 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.88%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

6.8%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 342 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 444 flies

UA 444 flies IAD to BDL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:25, used on 98 of 342 flights, with 22:31 (37 flights) and 22:16 (36 flights) next.

Departs 22:2598 flights28.7%
Departs 22:3137 flights10.8%
Departs 22:1636 flights10.5%

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 22:25 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and UA 444 runs 11 points better at 80.8%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

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Against the route

UA 444 next to IAD to BDL

Every carrier on IAD to BDL combined arrived on time 85.9% of the time across 1,082 flights, so UA 444 is 5 points behind it. United flew 941 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.8% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 2 points.

UA 444 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 444thin sample	342	80.8%	61 min	0.88%	B+
All United Airlines on IAD–BDL	941	85.8%	63 min	1.17%	A
All carriers on IAD–BDL	1,082	85.9%	64 min	1.66%	A
United Airlines, whole network	830,825	78.8%	73 min	1.02%	B

Across the year

UA 444 quarter by quarter

UA 444 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 86.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 65.0%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 86 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 202526 flights—
Oct–Dec 202588 flights86.4%
Jan–Mar 202680 flights85.5%
Apr–Jun 202688 flights81.8%
Jul–Sep 202660 flights65.0%

Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 444 did best on Tuesday at 89.5% on time and worst on Monday at 72.5%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late UA 444 runs when it is late

The 65 late arrivals split 25 under half an hour, 17 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 23 an hour or more.

15+ min early74 flights21.9%
Within 15 min199 flights58.9%
15–29 min late25 flights7.4%
30–59 min late17 flights5.0%
1–2 hours late14 flights4.1%
2+ hours late9 flights2.7%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 338 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

9 of 61 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for UA 444

The latest arrival of the period was on 12 June 2026, 3 hours 41 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across June, July and January, with no single month standing out.

The latest arrivals of UA 444 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
12 June 2026	3 hours 41 minutes	Carrier
18 July 2026	3 hours 23 minutes	Extreme weather
6 July 2026	2 hours 47 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
6 June 2026	2 hours 40 minutes	Carrier
26 January 2026	2 hours 34 minutes	Extreme weather

Delay causes

Why UA 444 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 3,979 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
35%
Late-arriving aircraft
35%
National Airspace System
16%
Extreme weather
14%

Extreme weather accounts for 14% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,979 delay minutes reported on UA 444.

Cancellations are rare at 0.88%, 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

6.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The same number turns up on seven other city pairs in the data, including SAN to IAD (201), SFO to SAN (197) and BNA to IAD (50), but none flew often enough under UA 444 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IAD to BDL only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 342 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 444

For a booking, UA 444 is one of the weaker ways to fly IAD to BDL: 5 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.

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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

Key figures