Carrier route record

UADEN→EGE

United Airlines · Denver to Eagle

Flights: 893
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 76%
Carriers: 2

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. Roughly 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 893 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, 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.

On time

77.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 891 completed flights

Avg delay

60 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.22%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

78.7%

Every carrier on DEN to EGE, 1,172 flights

These figures cover 893 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.0% 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.

Carrier by carrier

United against every carrier on DEN to EGE

United flew 893 of the 1,172 flights on DEN to EGE, most of the route. Its 77.0% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 78.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 84.4% to United at 77.0%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on DEN to EGE
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	279	84.4%	46 min	1.43%	B
United Airlines (this page)	893	77.0%	60 min	0.22%	B+

Flight by flight

United flight numbers on DEN to EGE

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. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am6 flights—
11am–2pm523 flights82.0%
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm313 flights68.3%
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

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.April best, July worst

July is the worst month at 61.3% on time, 30 points below April, the best at 91.7%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. December was the busiest month here, with 96 flights.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 82.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 68.2%. 15 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why United runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 12,000 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
52%
National Airspace System
25%
Carrier
18%
Extreme weather
5%

52% 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 12,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 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 12,277 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.22%, below the national 1.81% 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

8.0% 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.

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 79.0% on time across 893 flights, within 2 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. 893 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. 893 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 77.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 891 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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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