UA1007

UA1007’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 5:30 PM earlier on, and around 6:00 PM more recently — a 30-minute shift, not the few minutes of day-to-day rounding every published schedule carries. Confirm the current departure time before booking around an older listing.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 786 operations, March 2024 – July 2026 · If UA1007 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

This flight's worst arrivals run unusually far past its typical one, a bigger gap than 92% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.

A typical arrival is 0 min early, but the worst tenth run 96 minutes worse than that.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · March 2024 – July 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · March 2024 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA1007 on DEN → SFO. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering March 2024 – July 2026

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, UA1007 pushed back an average of 56 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 11 minutes late.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into DEN just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 696 of 780 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering March 2024 – July 2026

UA1007 pushes back an average of 27.7 minutes late and reaches the gate at SFO an average of 21.3 minutes late. The 6.4 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. Its 22.2 minutes on the taxiways at DEN is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.

On arrival at SFO, UA1007 spends 6.9 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is 1.0 minutes shorter than a typical SFO arrival (7.9 min).

Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached SFO. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 91,793 departures from DEN scheduled in the clock hour UA1007 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at SFO (436,060 flights), not just UA1007’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · March 2024 – July 2026

UA1007 is scheduled out of DEN at 5:59 PM, in the 5 PM–6 PM bank. Departures from DEN in that hour arrive on time 67.8% of the time against 76.0% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 8.2 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from DEN to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · March 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA1007 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering March 2024 – July 2026

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. UA1007 is placed in the same ordering rather than left out of it; the rows around it are the most punctual departures on the route, not all of them, so this is a comparison and not a rank. Schedules change; confirm the departure still operates before booking around this.

• F93439 DEN→SFO Frontier Airlines on the same route, departs 10:29 PM, on time 65.3%
• UA1812 DEN→SFO United Airlines on the same route, departs 1:25 PM, on time 78.6%
• UA1561 DEN→SFO United Airlines on the same route, departs 11:35 AM, on time 73.6%
• UA1116 SFO→AUS United Airlines flight out of SFO, SFO to AUS, departs 12:55 PM, on time 82.4%