Flight profile · United Airlines
UA1444
Houston (IAH) to Newark (EWR) · scheduled 8:24 PM – 12:45 AM
How UA1444 performs
613 operations, October 2024 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on IAH → EWR, UA1444 averaged about 6 operations a week (613 in 674 days, cancelled ones included).
UA1444 arrived on time 73.4% of the time, against 75.3% for all IAH → EWR flights, so this departure is 1.9 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 1.6 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 613 operations, October 2024 – August 2026 · If UA1444 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where UA1444 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA1444 | 73.4% | 1.96% | -4 min | 9.7% | 613 |
| United Airlines on IAH → EWR | 75.0% | 2.04% | -5 min | 10.1% | 10,844 |
| All IAH → EWR flights | 75.3% | 2.12% | -6 min | 10.0% | 11,820 |
UA1444 cancelled 12 of 613 operations (1.96%), close to the 2.12% for IAH → EWR.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2024 – August 2026
Why UA1444 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA1444 on IAH → EWR. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2024 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies UA1444 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, UA1444 pushed back an average of 51 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 9 minutes late.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into IAH: 484 of 601 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| UA1444 | 26% | 69% | 18% |
| Network, same turn | 17% | 69% | 9% |
79 scheduled minutes is enough to clean and board when the aircraft is on time, with little to spare when it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often UA1444’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often UA1444 left 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2024 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves IAH late, does that still matter by the time it reaches EWR?
UA1444 pushes back an average of 22.7 minutes late and reaches the gate at EWR an average of 11.1 minutes late. The 11.6 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so a late pushback is partly, not fully, made up before the gate. It spends 22.8 minutes on the taxiways at IAH, 1.3 minutes longer than a typical IAH departure in the same hour.
On arrival at EWR, UA1444 spends 8.0 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 2.2 minutes shorter than a typical EWR arrival (10.1 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 35,287 IAH departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 397,792 arrivals at EWR. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2024 – August 2026
The hour it leaves IAH
UA1444 has one departure time, 8:24 PM, so this is what that hour at IAH is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 35,287 departures from IAH are scheduled in the 8 PM–9 PM hour over the period, against 369,255 across the whole day.
UA1444 is scheduled out of IAH at 8:24 PM, in the 8 PM–9 PM bank. Departures from IAH in that hour arrive on time 71.8% of the time against 77.5% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 5.7 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from IAH, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2024 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes UA1444 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. UA1444 also served these 13 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSY→IAH New Orleans to Houston | December 2, 2025 – August 31, 2026 | 133 | 79.5% |
| PIT→IAH Pittsburgh to Houston | March 29, 2026 – August 10, 2026 | 133 | 66.9% |
| EWR→SRQ Newark to Sarasota/Bradenton | May 1–16, 2025 | 16 | — |
| LAS→DEN Las Vegas to Denver | March 30, 2025 – April 30, 2025 | 32 | — |
| SEA→IAH Seattle to Houston | May 23, 2024 – October 25, 2024 | 148 | 79.6% |
| IAH→ATL Houston to Atlanta | September 26, 2024 – October 25, 2024 | 22 | — |
| IAH→FLL Houston to Fort Lauderdale | December 25, 2023 – June 30, 2024 | 15 | — |
| IAH→SAT Houston to San Antonio | May 23, 2024 – June 26, 2024 | 35 | — |
| SAT→IAH San Antonio to Houston | March 7, 2024 – May 22, 2024 | 77 | — |
| IAH→DCA Houston to Washington | October 29, 2023 – March 30, 2024 | 140 | 69.1% |
| SJC→IAH San Jose to Houston | September 5, 2023 – February 14, 2024 | 91 | 91.2% |
| ORD→PWM Chicago to Portland | July 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 66 | — |
| PDX→ORD Portland to Chicago | August 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 22 | — |
The figures above describe only IAH → EWR, the route UA1444 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
57 min late
against a median of 4 min early
UA1444 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 4 min early, but the worst tenth are 61 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 613 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2024 – August 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA1886 | United Airlines | 88.8% | 9 min early | 892 |
| UA1444 this flight | United Airlines | 73.4% | 4 min early | 613 |
| UA404 | United Airlines | 67.1% | 1 min late | 677 |
Among all 3 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, UA1444 has the 2nd highest on-time rate, 15.4 points behind the best. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 613 records of UA1444 operating IAH → EWR, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule; cancelled and diverted flights are reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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