Carrier route record
UAEGE→DEN
United Airlines · Eagle to Denver
- 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 EGE to DEN lands a B+, 3 points 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 954 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate United on EGE to DEN from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
80.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 947 completed flights
Avg delay
84 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.31%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.3%
Every carrier on EGE to DEN, 1,171 flights
These figures cover 954 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
United against every carrier on EGE to DEN
United flew 954 of the 1,171 flights on EGE to DEN, most of the route. Its 80.4% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 79.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 80.4% to SkyWest at 74.4%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines (this page) | 954 | 80.4% | 84 min | 0.31% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 217 | 74.4% | 54 min | 0.92% | C+ |
Flight by flight
United flight numbers on EGE to DEN
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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 15 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am365 flights86.0%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm370 flights80.3%
- 2pm–5pm219 flights71.0%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 86.0% of the time, against 71.0% for the afternoon window. That is 15 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 370 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on EGE to DEN through the year
August is the worst month at 67.0% on time, 26 points below June, the best at 93.3%. 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 85.1% on time and Saturday the weakest at 71.7%, a spread of 13 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on EGE to DEN runs when it is late
United on EGE to DEN often beats the schedule: 382 of 947 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 186 late arrivals split 67 under half an hour, 47 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 72 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early382 flights40.3%
- Within 15 min379 flights40.0%
- 15–29 min late67 flights7.1%
- 30–59 min late47 flights5.0%
- 1–2 hours late34 flights3.6%
- 2+ hours late38 flights4.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 947 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
33 of 158 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. In the other direction, 61 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 DEN.
The worst days
Worst days for United on EGE to DEN
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 August 2026, 17 hours 49 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 23 August 2026 | 17 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 February 2026 | 10 hours 34 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 6 March 2026 | 9 hours 34 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 November 2025 | 8 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 August 2026 | 8 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 42% of the 16,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 42%National Airspace System
- 26%Carrier
- 23%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%Extreme weather
42% 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 6,591 minutes out of 16,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 15,679 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.31%, 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
7.6% 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 an hour and a half, 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 77.8% 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 EGE to DEN
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 80.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 947 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- EGE to DEN, every carrier
- United on DEN to EGE, the return leg
- SkyWest Airlines on EGE to DEN74.4%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
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- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.