Carrier route record
UADEN→EGE
United Airlines · Denver to Eagle
- Flights
- 954
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 81%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on DEN to EGE lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 954 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate United on DEN to EGE from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
77.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 951 completed flights
Avg delay
62 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.21%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.2%
Every carrier on DEN to EGE, 1,171 flights
These figures cover 954 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.
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Carrier by carrier
United against every carrier on DEN to EGE
United flew 954 of the 1,171 flights on DEN to EGE, most of the route. Its 77.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 79.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 85.6% to United at 77.8%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 217 | 85.6% | 49 min | 0.92% | A+ |
| United Airlines (this page) | 954 | 77.8% | 62 min | 0.21% | B+ |
Flight by flight
United flight numbers on DEN to EGE
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Departure window
When United runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 16 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am6 flights—
- 11am–2pm585 flights82.7%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm312 flights68.4%
- 8pm–5am51 flights84.3%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is the strongest at 84.3% on time. The full set of windows spans 16 points.
Across the year
United on DEN to EGE through the year
December is the weak month at 68.8% on time, against 91.7% in April. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. December was the busiest month here, with 96 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 83.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 68.8%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on DEN to EGE runs when it is late
The 211 late arrivals split 79 under half an hour, 62 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 70 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early127 flights13.4%
- Within 15 min613 flights64.5%
- 15–29 min late79 flights8.3%
- 30–59 min late62 flights6.5%
- 1–2 hours late49 flights5.2%
- 2+ hours late21 flights2.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 951 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
25 of 170 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. In the other direction, 66 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at EGE.
The worst days
Worst days for United on DEN to EGE
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 July 2026, 11 hours 47 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The five worst days are spread across July, August and February, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2026 | 11 hours 47 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 14 August 2026 | 5 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 July 2026 | 5 hours | Carrier |
| 20 February 2026 | 4 hours 26 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 13 August 2026 | 4 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%National Airspace System
- 22%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. The split is drawn from 13,058 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.21%, 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 stage length
What a delay here costs
7.4% 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.
At 120 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 8pm–5am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 80.4% on time across 954 flights, within 3 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 954 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 United on DEN to EGE
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 954 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 77.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 951 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.