Carrier route record
UADFW→EWR
United Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Newark
- Flights
- 1,805
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 50%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on DFW to EWR lands a B, about a point 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 an hour and a half on average. That rests on 1,805 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate United on DFW to EWR from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,743 completed flights
Avg delay
88 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.83%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
72.9%
Every carrier on DFW to EWR, 3,633 flights
These figures cover 1,805 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.9% 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 DFW to EWR
United flew 1,805 of the 3,633 flights on DFW to EWR, about 50% of it. Its 78.3% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 72.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 84.3% to Spirit at 66.1%. Three 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 | 118 | 84.3% | 54 min | 0.85% | B+ |
| United Airlines (this page) | 1,805 | 78.3% | 88 min | 2.83% | B |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 25 | 78.3% | 282 min | 4.00% | B− |
| American Airlines | 1,440 | 66.2% | 78 min | 4.03% | C− |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 245 | 66.1% | 70 min | 4.90% | C− |
Flight by flight
United flight numbers on DFW to EWR
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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 32 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am485 flights91.7%
- 8am–11am296 flights82.8%
- 11am–2pm448 flights77.1%
- 2pm–5pm31 flights64.5%
- 5pm–8pm464 flights66.7%
- 8pm–5am81 flights59.5%
Scale runs 50% to 95%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 59.5% on time, against 91.7% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 485 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on DFW to EWR through the year
April is the best month on the calendar at 89.7% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. July was the busiest month here, with 170 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 84.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.1%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on DFW to EWR runs when it is late
United on DFW to EWR often beats the schedule: 503 of 1,743 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 378 late arrivals split 111 under half an hour, 95 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 172 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early503 flights28.9%
- Within 15 min862 flights49.5%
- 15–29 min late111 flights6.4%
- 30–59 min late95 flights5.5%
- 1–2 hours late91 flights5.2%
- 2+ hours late81 flights4.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,743 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
61 of 352 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 87 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for United on DFW to EWR
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 March 2026, 17 hours 19 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 March 2026 | 17 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 July 2026 | 14 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 19 March 2026 | 10 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 February 2026 | 10 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 January 2026 | 8 hours 55 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 46% of the 33,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%National Airspace System
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
46% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 15,000 minutes out of 33,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 33,265 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 91.7% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.83%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
9.9% 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 1,372 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 79.5% on time across 1,805 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,805 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking United on DFW to EWR
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.83% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,743 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to EWR, every carrier
- United on EWR to DFW, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on DFW to EWR84.3%
- American Airlines on DFW to EWR66.2%
- Spirit Airlines on DFW to EWR66.1%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.