Flight number record

UA 676

United Airlines · Newark to Austin

Route: EWR → AUS
Departs: 17:29
Flights: 274
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 676, check with United Airlines.

UA 676 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 274 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

On time

74.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 267 completed flights

Avg delay

89 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.19%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

13.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 274 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When UA 676 flies

UA 676 flies EWR to AUS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:29, used on 43 of 274 flights, with 19:18 (36 flights) and 16:59 (28 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 17:2943 flights15.7%
Departs 19:1836 flights13.1%
Departs 16:5928 flights10.2%

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 17:29 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and UA 676 runs 6 points better at 74.5%. 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 676 next to EWR to AUS

Every carrier on EWR to AUS combined arrived on time 78.2% of the time across 2,107 flights, so UA 676 is 4 points behind it. United flew 1,739 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.6% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 5 points.

UA 676 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 676thin sample	274	74.5%	89 min	2.19%	C
All United Airlines on EWR–AUS	1,739	79.6%	77 min	1.73%	B
All carriers on EWR–AUS	2,107	78.2%	78 min	2.42%	B
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 676 quarter by quarter

UA 676 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 81.6% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 66.7%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 69 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 202534 flights75.8%
Oct–Dec 202564 flights66.7%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights81.6%
Apr–Jun 202686 flights72.6%

Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 676 did best on Monday at 85.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 63.2%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 676 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 6,039 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
56%
Carrier
27%
National Airspace System
17%

56% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 6,039 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 56 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 6,039 delay minutes reported on UA 676.

Cancellations sit at 2.19% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.36%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 13.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 1,504 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 six other city pairs in the data, including DEN to BUR (47), BOS to EWR (35) and DEN to CLT (31), but none flew often enough under UA 676 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to EWR to AUS only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 274 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 676

For a booking, UA 676 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 13.9% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.

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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