Flight number record

UA 444

United Airlines · Washington to Hartford

Route: IAD → BDL
Departs: 22:25
Flights: 340
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 340 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 444's record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 44 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 334 completed flights

Avg delay

59 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.47%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 340 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 444 flies

UA 444 flies IAD to BDL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:25, used on 59 of 340 flights, with 22:24 (49 flights) and 22:31 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 22:2559 flights17.4%
Departs 22:2449 flights14.4%
Departs 22:3137 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 22:25 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and UA 444 runs 12 points better at 82.0%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

UA 444 next to IAD to BDL

Every carrier on IAD to BDL combined arrived on time 86.2% of the time across 1,092 flights, so UA 444 is 4 points behind it. United flew 892 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.2% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 3 points.

UA 444 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 444thin sample	340	82.0%	59 min	1.47%	B
All United Airlines on IAD–BDL	892	86.2%	58 min	1.23%	A
All carriers on IAD–BDL	1,092	86.2%	59 min	1.83%	A
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	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 2025 at 74.4%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 85 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 202584 flights74.4%
Oct–Dec 202588 flights86.4%
Jan–Mar 202680 flights85.5%
Apr–Jun 202688 flights81.8%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 444 did best on Tuesday at 91.9% on time and worst on Friday at 76.6%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

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 3,520 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
38%
Late-arriving aircraft
34%
National Airspace System
16%
Extreme weather
12%

Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,520 delay minutes reported on UA 444.

Cancellations sit at 1.47% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.29%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.0% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The same number turns up on nine other city pairs in the data, including SAN to IAD (139), SFO to SAN (135) 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. 340 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, read UA 444 as 82.0% on time with 1.47% cancelled over 340 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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