Flight number record
UA 696
United Airlines · Denver to Kalispell
- Route
- DEN → FCA
- Departs
- 19:35
- Flights
- 347
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 696, check with United Airlines.
UA 696 sits in the middle of the pack with a B+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 347 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
Key figures
On time
75.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 344 completed flights
Avg delay
64 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.58%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 347 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When UA 696 flies
UA 696 flies DEN to FCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:35, used on 80 of 347 flights, with 19:30 (69 flights) and 19:25 (40 flights) next.
- Departs 19:3580 flights23.1%
- Departs 19:3069 flights19.9%
- Departs 19:2540 flights11.5%
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 19:35 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and UA 696 runs 8 points better at 75.6%. 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 696 next to DEN to FCA
Every carrier on DEN to FCA combined arrived on time 81.6% of the time across 1,010 flights, so UA 696 is 6 points behind it. United flew 807 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.9% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 696thin sample | 347 | 75.6% | 64 min | 0.58% | B+ |
| All United Airlines on DEN–FCA | 807 | 78.9% | 59 min | 0.62% | B+ |
| All carriers on DEN–FCA | 1,010 | 81.6% | 58 min | 0.50% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 696 quarter by quarter
UA 696 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 81.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 43.2%, a swing of 39 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 202530 flights76.7%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights79.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights81.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights81.3%
- Jul–Sep 202645 flights43.2%
Scale runs 35% to 85%.
By weekday, UA 696 did best on Tuesday at 93.8% on time and worst on Saturday at 66.7%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 27 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 696 runs when it is late
The 84 late arrivals split 27 under half an hour, 27 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 30 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early46 flights13.4%
- Within 15 min214 flights62.2%
- 15–29 min late27 flights7.8%
- 30–59 min late27 flights7.8%
- 1–2 hours late25 flights7.3%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 344 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
13 of 85 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 696
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 November 2025, 12 hours 19 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 12 November 2025 | 12 hours 19 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 21 August 2026 | 4 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 August 2026 | 3 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 June 2026 | 2 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 August 2026 | 2 hours 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 696 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 5,390 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Carrier
- 13%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 13% 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 2.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,390 delay minutes reported on UA 696.
Cancellations are rare at 0.58%, 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
8.7% 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 752 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including MKE to DEN (67), STL to DEN (36) and OMA to DEN (23), but none flew often enough under UA 696 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DEN to FCA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 347 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 696
For a booking, UA 696 is one of the weaker ways to fly DEN to FCA: 6 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.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to FCA, every carrier and departure
- FCA to DEN, the return direction
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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.