UA1320

UA1320 arrived on time 84.4% of the time, against 79.9% for all DEN → SNA flights, so this departure is 4.5 percentage points better than the route as a whole.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 1,076 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If UA1320 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA1320 on DEN → SNA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, UA1320 pushed back an average of 26 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 0 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, 1,038 of 1,074 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 July 2023 – July 2026

UA1320 pushes back an average of 4.9 minutes late and reaches the gate at SNA an average of 0.7 minutes late. The 4.2 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. It spends 21.2 minutes on the taxiways at DEN, 1.3 minutes longer than a typical DEN departure in the same hour.

On arrival at SNA, UA1320 spends 7.4 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 about what any arrival at SNA spends on the ground before reaching the gate.

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 SNA. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 94,079 departures from DEN scheduled in the clock hour UA1320 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at SNA (137,357 flights), not just UA1320’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

UA1320 is scheduled out of DEN at 11:35 AM, in the 11 AM–12 PM bank. Departures from DEN in that hour arrive on time 80.0% of the time against 76.0% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 4.0 points better 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 · July 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA1320 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. UA1320 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.

• F94371 DEN→SNA Frontier Airlines on the same route, departs 9:42 AM, on time 83.9%
• UA2666 DEN→SNA United Airlines on the same route, departs 7:50 AM, on time 91.1%
• UA2656 SNA→DEN Return trip, SNA to DEN, departs 6:40 PM, on time 85.7%
• UA484 DEN→ABQ United Airlines flight out of DEN, DEN to ABQ, departs 8:37 PM, on time 69.9%