UA1793

UA1793 arrived on time 93.6% of the time, against 79.0% for all DCA → ORD flights, so this departure is 14.6 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 14.4 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 845 operations, February 2024 – July 2026 · If UA1793 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

This flight runs unusually far ahead of the carrier's own average on this route, better than 98% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.

93.6% on time for this specific departure, against 79.2% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · February 2024 – July 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.

UA1793 has cancelled 1.42% of its scheduled departures (12 of 845), against 2.47% for all DCA → ORD flights — this specific departure cancels 1.1 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 UA1793 specifically, not about the route it flies.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA1793 on DCA → ORD. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

UA1793 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 7.8 hours on the ground at DCA, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, UA1793 pushed back an average of 1 minute early; when it came in on time or early, an average of 4 minutes early.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into DCA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 813 of 833 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 February 2024 – July 2026

UA1793 pushes back an average of 1.9 minutes early and reaches the gate at ORD an average of 7.4 minutes early. The 5.5 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 14.5 minutes on the taxiways at DCA, 3.4 minutes shorter than a typical DCA departure in the same hour.

On arrival at ORD, UA1793 spends 16.8 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 1.0 minutes shorter than a typical ORD arrival (17.8 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 ORD. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 31,497 departures from DCA scheduled in the clock hour UA1793 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at ORD (952,666 flights), not just UA1793’s own. More on taxi time.

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

UA1793 is scheduled out of DCA at 6:30 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from DCA in that hour arrive on time 90.8% of the time against 76.5% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 14.3 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from DCA 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 · February 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · February 2024 – 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 UA1793 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

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

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. UA1793 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.

• AA2304 DCA→ORD American Airlines on the same route, departs 6:59 AM, on time 89.4%
• AA2903 DCA→ORD American Airlines on the same route, departs 6:00 AM, on time 84.1%
• UA2148 DCA→ORD United Airlines on the same route, departs 6:00 PM, on time 56.0%
• UA1077 ORD→DCA Return trip, ORD to DCA, departs 6:00 AM, on time 90.0%