Carrier route record
UAEWR→DFW
United Airlines · Newark to Dallas-Fort Worth
- 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 EWR to DFW lands a B, 2 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 a little over an hour on average. That rests on 1,805 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate United on EWR to DFW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,749 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.66%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.6%
Every carrier on EWR to DFW, 3,631 flights
These figures cover 1,805 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.6% 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 EWR to DFW
United flew 1,805 of the 3,631 flights on EWR to DFW, about 50% of it. Its 79.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 78.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 87.0% to Spirit at 66.2%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 25 | 87.0% | 67 min | 4.00% | A− |
| American Airlines | 1,440 | 80.1% | 104 min | 4.10% | B− |
| United Airlines (this page) | 1,805 | 79.5% | 74 min | 2.66% | B |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 118 | 70.4% | 243 min | 1.69% | C |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 243 | 66.2% | 79 min | 4.94% | C− |
Flight by flight
United flight numbers on EWR to DFW
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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 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am252 flights90.6%
- 8am–11am312 flights84.5%
- 11am–2pm352 flights82.5%
- 2pm–5pm336 flights77.0%
- 5pm–8pm331 flights69.7%
- 8pm–5am222 flights73.5%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 90.6% of the time, against 69.7% for the evening window. That is 21 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 352 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on EWR to DFW through the year
July is the worst month at 73.0% on time, 16 points below April, the best at 89.0%. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 170 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 86.0% on time and Thursday the weakest at 73.8%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on EWR to DFW runs when it is late
United on EWR to DFW often beats the schedule: 674 of 1,749 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 358 late arrivals split 108 under half an hour, 99 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 151 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early674 flights38.5%
- Within 15 min717 flights41.0%
- 15–29 min late108 flights6.2%
- 30–59 min late99 flights5.7%
- 1–2 hours late86 flights4.9%
- 2+ hours late65 flights3.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,749 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
98 of 331 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 30% of them. In the other direction, 125 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 DFW.
The worst days
Worst days for United on EWR to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 July 2026, 6 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across July, October, August and September, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 July 2026 | 6 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 October 2025 | 6 hours 58 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 August 2026 | 6 hours 8 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 4 September 2025 | 6 hours 3 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 21 July 2026 | 5 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 26,000 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%National Airspace System
- 25%Carrier
- 5%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 26,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 26,476 reported delay minutes.
33% 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 8,814 minutes out of 26,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 2.66%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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
8.6% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 78.3% 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 EWR to DFW
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. April runs 89.0% on time and July 73.0%, a swing of 16 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,749 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to DFW, every carrier
- United on DFW to EWR, the return leg
- American Airlines on EWR to DFW80.1%
- Frontier Airlines on EWR to DFW70.4%
- Spirit Airlines on EWR to DFW66.2%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) 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.