Carrier route record
UADEN→FAR
United Airlines · Denver to Fargo
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 26%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on DEN to FAR sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate United on DEN to FAR from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
74.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 362 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.7%
Every carrier on DEN to FAR, 1,415 flights
These figures cover 363 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
United against every carrier on DEN to FAR
United flew 363 of the 1,415 flights on DEN to FAR, about 26% of it. Its 74.3% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 87.3% to United at 74.3%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 173 | 87.3% | 65 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines | 879 | 80.5% | 74 min | 1.14% | B |
| United Airlines (this page)thin sample | 363 | 74.3% | 72 min | 0.00% | C+ |
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Departure window
When United runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 363 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split United's DEN to FAR record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 74.3% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
United on DEN to FAR through the year
August is the worst month at 38.7% on time, 51 points below April, the best at 90.0%. 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. January was the busiest month here, with 31 flights.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 79.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 69.2%, a spread of 10 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on DEN to FAR runs when it is late
The 93 late arrivals split 28 under half an hour, 27 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 38 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early50 flights13.8%
- Within 15 min219 flights60.5%
- 15–29 min late28 flights7.7%
- 30–59 min late27 flights7.5%
- 1–2 hours late25 flights6.9%
- 2+ hours late13 flights3.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 362 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 78 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 8 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 23 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 FAR.
The worst days
Worst days for United on DEN to FAR
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 July 2026, 6 hours 28 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 22 July 2026 | 6 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 February 2026 | 6 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 June 2026 | 5 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 August 2026 | 4 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 February 2026 | 4 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 61% of the 6,648 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 61%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 15%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
61% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,648 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 50 to one. The split is drawn from 6,648 reported delay minutes.
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 stage length
What a delay here costs
10.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 627 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 return leg runs 73.2% on time across 363 flights, within about a point 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. 363 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 FAR
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 363 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 74.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 362 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to FAR, every carrier
- United on FAR to DEN, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on DEN to FAR87.3%
- SkyWest Airlines on DEN to FAR80.5%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.