Carrier route record
UADEN→ICT
United Airlines · Denver to Wichita
- Flights
- 372
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 17%
- 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 ICT sits in the middle of the pack with a B+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 372 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, SkyWest Airlines, flew 1,300 at 85.3% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate United on DEN to ICT from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
75.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 369 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.54%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.7%
Every carrier on DEN to ICT, 2,231 flights
These figures cover 372 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% 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 ICT
United flew 372 of the 2,231 flights on DEN to ICT, about 17% of it. Its 75.6% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 85.3% to Southwest at 61.5%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. SkyWest Airlines arrives on time 85.3% of the time; Southwest Airlines manages 61.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 559 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines | 1,300 | 85.3% | 65 min | 0.69% | A+ |
| United Airlines (this page) | 372 | 75.6% | 65 min | 0.54% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 559 | 61.5% | 60 min | 0.72% | D+ |
The spread between SkyWest and Southwest is 24 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 24 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
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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 372 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split United's DEN to ICT record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 75.6% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
United on DEN to ICT through the year
August is the worst month at 56.7% on time, 40 points below November, the best at 97.0%. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 33 flights.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 78.8% on time and Saturday the weakest at 68.5%, a spread of 10 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on DEN to ICT runs when it is late
The 90 late arrivals split 35 under half an hour, 24 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 31 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early64 flights17.3%
- Within 15 min215 flights58.3%
- 15–29 min late35 flights9.5%
- 30–59 min late24 flights6.5%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights4.3%
- 2+ hours late15 flights4.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 369 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
13 of 77 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. In the other direction, 26 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 ICT.
The worst days
Worst days for United on DEN to ICT
The latest arrival of the period was on 11 September 2025, 4 hours 44 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2025 | 4 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 July 2026 | 4 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 June 2026 | 3 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 August 2026 | 3 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 May 2026 | 3 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 57% of the 5,807 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
57% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,807 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 21 to one. The split is drawn from 5,807 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.54%, 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
8.4% 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 420 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 5pm–8pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 68.6% on time across 371 flights, 7 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 372 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 ICT
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 372 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 75.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 369 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to ICT, every carrier
- United on ICT to DEN, the return leg
- SkyWest Airlines on DEN to ICT85.3%
- Southwest Airlines on DEN to ICT61.5%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
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.