UA1739

UA1739 arrived on time 78.8% of the time, against 76.4% for all EWR → MCO flights, so this departure is 2.4 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 1.1 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 664 operations, October 2023 – July 2026 · If UA1739 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 · October 2023 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA1739 on EWR → MCO. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

The aircraft flying UA1739 came in 15 or more minutes late on 13% 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, 534 of 646 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 October 2023 – July 2026

UA1739 pushes back an average of 9.4 minutes late and reaches the gate at MCO an average of 2.8 minutes late. The 6.6 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 26.8 minutes on the taxiways at EWR, 2.8 minutes longer than a typical EWR departure in the same hour.

On arrival at MCO, UA1739 spends 9.0 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 1.9 minutes shorter than a typical MCO arrival (10.9 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 MCO. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 23,655 departures from EWR scheduled in the clock hour UA1739 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at MCO (498,229 flights), not just UA1739’s own. More on taxi time.

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

UA1739 is scheduled out of EWR at 10:30 AM, in the 10 AM–11 AM bank. Departures from EWR in that hour arrive on time 82.3% of the time against 77.7% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 4.6 points better 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 · October 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA1739 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

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

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. UA1739 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.

• B61527 EWR→MCO JetBlue on the same route, departs 10:30 AM, on time 69.3%
• B6127 EWR→MCO JetBlue on the same route, departs 10:40 AM, on time 77.5%
• UA1213 EWR→MCO United Airlines on the same route, departs 2:30 PM, on time 73.1%
• UA1608 EWR→BNA United Airlines flight out of EWR, EWR to BNA, departs 3:00 PM, on time 75.2%