Flight number record
UA 696
United Airlines · Denver to Kalispell
- Route
- DEN → FCA
- Departs
- 19:15
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 696, check with United Airlines.
UA 696 lands a B, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four 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 364 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
Key figures
On time
76.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights
Avg delay
64 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.10%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
8.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% 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 696 flies
UA 696 flies DEN to FCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:15, used on 80 of 364 flights, with 19:35 (80 flights) and 19:25 (53 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 19:1580 flights22.0%
- Departs 19:3580 flights22.0%
- Departs 19:2553 flights14.6%
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 19:15 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and UA 696 runs 8 points better at 76.0%. 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 696 next to DEN to FCA
Every carrier on DEN to FCA combined arrived on time 82.1% of the time across 1,063 flights, so UA 696 is 6 points behind it. United flew 848 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.3% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 696thin sample | 364 | 76.0% | 64 min | 1.10% | B |
| All United Airlines on DEN–FCA | 848 | 79.3% | 58 min | 0.83% | B+ |
| All carriers on DEN–FCA | 1,063 | 82.1% | 58 min | 0.66% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | 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 2025 at 61.8%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 91 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 202592 flights61.8%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights79.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights81.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights81.3%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 696 did best on Tuesday at 84.9% on time and worst on Saturday at 65.4%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 696 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 5,502 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.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 13%Extreme weather
- 8%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 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,502 delay minutes reported on UA 696.
Cancellations sit at 1.10% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.27%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.4% 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 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including STL to DEN (36), MKE to DEN (27) 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. 364 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.