Flight number record
UA 741
United Airlines · Denver to Bozeman
- Route
- DEN → BZN
- Departs
- 11:45
- Flights
- 283
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 741, check with United Airlines.
UA 741 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 283 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 741's record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 40 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 283 completed flights
Avg delay
66 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 283 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 3 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 741 flies
UA 741 flies DEN to BZN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:45, used on 135 of 283 flights, with 11:30 (32 flights) and 11:35 (31 flights) next.
- Departs 11:45135 flights47.7%
- Departs 11:3032 flights11.3%
- Departs 11:3531 flights11.0%
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 11:45 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and UA 741 runs 3 points better at 81.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
UA 741 next to DEN to BZN
Every carrier on DEN to BZN combined arrived on time 78.1% of the time across 2,703 flights, so UA 741 is 3 points ahead of it. United flew 1,210 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.1% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 741thin sample | 283 | 81.3% | 66 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| All United Airlines on DEN–BZN | 1,210 | 83.1% | 58 min | 0.17% | B+ |
| All carriers on DEN–BZN | 2,703 | 78.1% | 54 min | 0.33% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 741 quarter by quarter
UA 741 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 73.3%, a swing of 27 points on roughly 71 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 flights100.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights76.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights73.3%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights92.0%
- Jul–Sep 202621 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 741 did best on Monday at 90.2% on time and worst on Saturday at 75.0%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 741 runs when it is late
The 53 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 21 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 19 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early31 flights11.0%
- Within 15 min199 flights70.3%
- 15–29 min late13 flights4.6%
- 30–59 min late21 flights7.4%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights5.3%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 283 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 47 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 741
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 December 2025, 6 hours 57 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across December, March, November and February, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 December 2025 | 6 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 March 2026 | 4 hours 28 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 28 November 2025 | 3 hours 58 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 30 November 2025 | 2 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 February 2026 | 1 hour 50 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 741 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 3,483 reported delay minutes.
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 14%Extreme weather
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 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,483 delay minutes reported on UA 741.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.7% 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 524 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 two other city pairs in the data, including BZN to LAX (97) and ORF to DEN (45), but none flew often enough under UA 741 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DEN to BZN only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 283 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 741
For a booking, read UA 741 as 81.3% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 283 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
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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.