Flight profile · United Airlines
UA1802
Portland (PDX) to Newark (EWR) · scheduled 10:52 PM – 7:00 AM
How UA1802 performs
708 operations, June 2024 – July 2026.
UA1802 arrived on time 84.6% of the time, against 82.5% for all PDX → EWR flights, so this departure is 2.1 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 1.5 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 708 operations, June 2024 – July 2026 · If UA1802 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where UA1802 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA1802 | 84.6% | 1.98% | -14 min | 5.6% | 708 |
| United Airlines on PDX → EWR | 83.1% | 1.50% | -12 min | 6.4% | 1,595 |
| All PDX → EWR flights | 82.5% | 1.52% | -11 min | 7.0% | 2,637 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026
Why UA1802 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 UA1802 on PDX → EWR. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies UA1802 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, UA1802 pushed back an average of 39 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 1 minute late.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into PDX just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 685 of 695 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 | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| UA1802 | 24% | 65% | 9% |
| Network, same turn | 17% | 68% | 9% |
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 UA1802’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often UA1802 left 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s.
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 June 2024 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves PDX late, does that still matter by the time it reaches EWR?
UA1802 pushes back an average of 10.3 minutes late and reaches the gate at EWR an average of 3.7 minutes early. The 14.0 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. Its 14.3 minutes on the taxiways at PDX is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at EWR, UA1802 spends 8.8 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 1.3 minutes shorter than a typical EWR arrival (10.1 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 EWR. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 4,677 departures from PDX scheduled in the clock hour UA1802 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at EWR (387,854 flights), not just UA1802’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026
The hour it leaves PDX
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. UA1802 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 4,677 departures from PDX are scheduled in the 10 PM–11 PM hour over the period, against 187,633 across the whole day.
UA1802 is scheduled out of PDX at 10:52 PM, in the 10 PM–11 PM bank. Departures from PDX in that hour arrive on time 82.2% of the time against 83.2% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour UA1802 leaves in is an ordinary one for PDX and explains nothing about its record either way.
The two airport figures cover every departure from PDX 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.
Other routes UA1802 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEN→BIL Denver to Billings | August 1–18, 2025 | 18 | — |
| FLL→DEN Fort Lauderdale to Denver | August 1–18, 2025 | 18 | — |
| DEN→CMH Denver to Columbus | June 26, 2025 – July 31, 2025 | 36 | — |
| EWR→AUS Newark to Austin | May 23, 2024 – June 26, 2024 | 35 | — |
| SJC→DEN San Jose to Denver | November 28, 2023 – May 22, 2024 | 175 | 97.1% |
| MTJ→DEN Montrose to Denver | January 9, 2024 | 1 | — |
| IAD→LAS Washington to Las Vegas | January 8, 2024 | 1 | — |
| EWR→RDU Newark to Raleigh–Durham | September 29, 2023 – November 27, 2023 | 43 | — |
| RDU→ORD Raleigh–Durham to Chicago | November 26, 2023 | 1 | — |
| ORD→SYR Chicago to Syracuse | November 10–23, 2023 | 3 | — |
| SAV→ORD Savannah to Chicago | September 30, 2023 – October 22, 2023 | 7 | — |
| MEM→ORD Memphis to Chicago | October 8, 2023 | 1 | — |
| DFW→DEN Dallas–Fort Worth to Denver | September 7–28, 2023 | 10 | — |
| DEN→SFO Denver to San Francisco | July 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 66 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA1802 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.
29 min late
against a median of 14 min early
Percentiles over 708 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 708 records of UA1802 operating PDX → 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 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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