Flight profile · United Airlines
UA1608
Newark (EWR) to Nashville (BNA) · scheduled 3:00 PM – 4:32 PM
How UA1608 performs
811 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
UA1608 arrived on time 75.2% of the time, against 77.0% for all EWR → BNA flights, so this departure is 1.8 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 1.0 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 811 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If UA1608 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where UA1608 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA1608 | 75.2% | 1.48% | -6 min | 11.7% | 811 |
| United Airlines on EWR → BNA | 76.2% | 2.43% | -7 min | 9.9% | 4,451 |
| All EWR → BNA flights | 77.0% | 2.72% | -8 min | 9.6% | 6,003 |
UA1608 has cancelled 1.48% of its scheduled departures (12 of 811), against 2.72% for all EWR → BNA flights — this specific departure cancels 1.2 percentage points less often than the route as a whole. Different flight numbers on the same route can carry different aircraft, crews and schedules, so this is a fact about UA1608 specifically, not about the route it flies.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why UA1608 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 UA1608 on EWR → BNA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies UA1608 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying UA1608 came in 15 or more minutes late on 15% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into EWR just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 712 of 799 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.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late |
|---|---|
| UA1608 | 15% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
The schedule leaves a normal turn: enough time to clean and board if the aircraft is on time, little to spare if it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often UA1608’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
More: Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft lists the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves EWR late, does that still matter by the time it reaches BNA?
UA1608 pushes back an average of 18.1 minutes late and reaches the gate at BNA an average of 13.4 minutes late. The 4.7 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 22.0 minutes on the taxiways at EWR, 2.2 minutes shorter than a typical EWR departure in the same hour.
On arrival at BNA, UA1608 spends 9.6 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 1.8 minutes longer than a typical BNA arrival (7.8 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 BNA. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 23,662 departures from EWR scheduled in the clock hour UA1608 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at BNA (319,633 flights), not just UA1608’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves EWR
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. UA1608 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 23,662 departures from EWR are scheduled in the 3 PM–4 PM hour over the period, against 387,621 across the whole day.
UA1608 is scheduled out of EWR at 3:00 PM, in the 3 PM–4 PM bank. Departures from EWR in that hour arrive on time 74.3% of the time against 77.7% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 3.4 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from EWR 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.
Other routes UA1608 has flown
A flight number is a slot in a schedule, and carriers reassign it. These are the other city pairs this number served in the analysis period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| EWR→ORD Newark to Chicago | March 5–28, 2026 | 24 | — |
| ORD→PSP Chicago to Palm Springs | March 7–28, 2026 | 10 | — |
| PDX→SFO Portland to San Francisco | February 12, 2026 – March 4, 2026 | 18 | — |
| IAH→ORD Houston to Chicago | January 6, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 37 | — |
| SNA→IAH Santa Ana to Houston | January 6, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 37 | — |
| RSW→DEN Fort Myers to Denver | December 18, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 19 | — |
| IAD→DEN Washington to Denver | December 2–17, 2025 | 16 | — |
| DEN→TUS Denver to Tucson | September 25, 2025 – October 25, 2025 | 31 | — |
| JAC→EWR Jackson to Newark | August 19, 2025 – September 23, 2025 | 30 | — |
| BNA→SFO Nashville to San Francisco | March 30, 2025 – April 30, 2025 | 18 | — |
| MIA→SFO Miami to San Francisco | October 27, 2024 – December 2, 2024 | 37 | — |
| SFO→LAX San Francisco to Los Angeles | November 1, 2024 – December 2, 2024 | 32 | — |
| SEA→EWR Seattle to Newark | September 1–25, 2024 | 25 | — |
| EWR→PBI Newark to West Palm Beach | June 27, 2024 – August 18, 2024 | 53 | — |
| IAH→TUS Houston to Tucson | March 7–30, 2024 | 24 | — |
| IAH→TPA Houston to Tampa | January 8, 2024 | 1 | — |
| EWR→TPA Newark to Tampa | December 21, 2023 – January 7, 2024 | 18 | — |
| LAX→IAH Los Angeles to Houston | November 28, 2023 – December 20, 2023 | 23 | — |
| IAH→MAF Houston to Midland | November 30, 2023 – December 20, 2023 | 11 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA1608 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
67 min late
against a median of 6 min early
UA1608 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 6 min early, but the worst tenth are 73 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 811 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 811 records of UA1608 operating EWR → BNA, 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 excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately. Flight numbers are resolved as carrier plus number plus route, because the same number serves different routes over time.
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