Carrier route record
UAFAR→DEN
United Airlines · Fargo to Denver
- 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 FAR to DEN sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 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 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so United on FAR to DEN runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 41 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 362 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.28%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
72.6%
Every carrier on FAR to DEN, 1,413 flights
These figures cover 363 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 FAR to DEN
United flew 363 of the 1,413 flights on FAR to DEN, about 26% of it. Its 73.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 72.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 79.1% to SkyWest at 71.0%. 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 | 172 | 79.1% | 53 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| United Airlines (this page)thin sample | 363 | 73.2% | 76 min | 0.28% | C+ |
| SkyWest Airlines | 878 | 71.0% | 101 min | 1.48% | 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 FAR to DEN record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 73.2% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
United on FAR to DEN through the year
December is the weak month at 51.6% on time, against 96.7% in September. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. January was the busiest month here, with 31 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 78.4% on time and Friday the weakest at 66.7%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on FAR to DEN runs when it is late
The 97 late arrivals split 40 under half an hour, 21 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 36 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early62 flights17.1%
- Within 15 min203 flights56.1%
- 15–29 min late40 flights11.0%
- 30–59 min late21 flights5.8%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights4.1%
- 2+ hours late21 flights5.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 362 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 65 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 7 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 39 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 FAR to DEN
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 November 2025, 9 hours 42 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as extreme weather.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 November 2025 | 9 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 January 2026 | 5 hours 57 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 23 January 2026 | 5 hours 51 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 4 April 2026 | 5 hours 19 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 9 June 2026 | 4 hours 24 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 7,400 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Carrier
- 35%National Airspace System
- 17%Extreme weather
- 8%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 17% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 7,400 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 41%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,043 of the 7,400 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.28%, 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
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 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 74.3% 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 FAR to DEN
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 73.2% 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
- FAR to DEN, every carrier
- United on DEN to FAR, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on FAR to DEN79.1%
- SkyWest Airlines on FAR to DEN71.0%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.