UA1565

UA1565 arrived on time 67.3% of the time, against 74.5% for all DEN → DFW flights, so this departure is 7.2 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 10.4 points worse.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 654 operations, June 2024 – July 2026 · If UA1565 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 · June 2024 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA1565 on DEN → DFW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, UA1565 pushed back an average of 56 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 7 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, 567 of 648 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 June 2024 – July 2026

UA1565 pushes back an average of 22.1 minutes late and reaches the gate at DFW an average of 20.0 minutes late. The 2.1 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 21.4 minutes on the taxiways at DEN, 1.2 minutes shorter than a typical DEN departure in the same hour.

On arrival at DFW, UA1565 spends 12.4 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 1.2 minutes shorter than a typical DFW arrival (13.5 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 DFW. 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 UA1565 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at DFW (961,642 flights), not just UA1565’s own. More on taxi time.

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

UA1565 is scheduled out of DEN at 5:30 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 · June 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 UA1565 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

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

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. UA1565 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.

• AA420 DEN→DFW American Airlines on the same route, departs 2:48 PM, on time 68.4%
• F92632 DEN→DFW Frontier Airlines on the same route, departs 9:05 PM, on time 63.1%
• UA578 DEN→DFW United Airlines on the same route, departs 1:45 PM, on time 79.8%
• UA793 ORD→DFW United Airlines flight into DFW, ORD to DFW, departs 3:45 PM, on time 73.5%