UA1077

UA1077 arrived on time 90.0% of the time, against 73.0% for all ORD → DCA flights, so this departure is 17.0 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 15.4 points better.

UA1077’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 6:30 AM earlier on, and around 6:00 AM 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 · 615 operations, August 2024 – July 2026 · If UA1077 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 runs unusually far ahead of the ORD → DCA route as a whole, better than 99% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.

90.0% on time for this specific departure, against 73.0% for every ORD → DCA flight.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA1077 on ORD → DCA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

UA1077 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 8.9 hours on the ground at ORD, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, UA1077 pushed back an average of 3 minutes early; when it came in on time or early, an average of 3 minutes early.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into ORD just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 440 of 608 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 August 2024 – July 2026

UA1077 pushes back an average of 2.0 minutes early and reaches the gate at DCA an average of 7.4 minutes early. The 5.4 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 19.6 minutes on the taxiways at ORD is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.

On arrival at DCA, UA1077 spends 4.1 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 3.5 minutes shorter than a typical DCA arrival (7.6 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 DCA. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 28,919 departures from ORD scheduled in the clock hour UA1077 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at DCA (435,126 flights), not just UA1077’s own. More on taxi time.

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

UA1077 is scheduled out of ORD at 6:00 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from ORD in that hour arrive on time 87.3% of the time against 74.5% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 12.8 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from ORD 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 · August 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 UA1077 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

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

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. UA1077 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.

• AA2345 ORD→DCA American Airlines on the same route, departs 8:05 AM, on time 74.4%
• UA1793 DCA→ORD Return trip, DCA to ORD, departs 6:30 AM, on time 93.6%
• UA2148 DCA→ORD Return trip, DCA to ORD, departs 6:00 PM, on time 56.0%
• UA1490 PDX→ORD United Airlines flight into ORD, PDX to ORD, departs 11:59 PM, on time 86.2%