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UA1805

Denver (DEN) to Honolulu (HNL) · scheduled 4:10 PM – 7:34 PM

This page describes how UA1805 has historically performed, which is a different and more useful question when you are deciding what to book. The live position below is a reading from receivers on the ground, not flight status. For today’s status, check with United Airlines.

How UA1805 performs

672 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.

On-time arrivals
66.3%
424 of 640 completed
Cancellation rate
2.38%
16 cancelled
Median arrival delay
1 min
Average 21.0 min
Severe delays
13.9%
Arrived 60+ minutes late
Delay when late
81 min
Average, when 15+ min late
Departure punctuality
68.4%
Left the gate on time

UA1805 arrived on time 66.3% of the time, against 74.6% for all DEN → HNL flights, so this departure is 8.3 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 8.3 points worse.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 672 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If UA1805 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

Where UA1805 is right now

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Against the rest of the route

Against the rest of the route
Flight or routeOn timeCancelledMedian delaySevereFlights
UA180566.3%2.38%1 min13.9%672
United Airlines on DEN → HNL74.6%1.17%-3 min9.6%1,879
All DEN → HNL flights74.6%1.17%-3 min9.6%1,879

UA1805 has cancelled 2.38% of its scheduled departures (16 of 672), against 1.17% for all DEN → HNL flights — this specific departure cancels 1.2 percentage points more 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 UA1805 specifically, not about the route it flies.

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

Why UA1805 runs late

Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA1805 on DEN → HNL. 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 UA1805 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.

Inbound aircraft late
18%
104 of 570 departures came in 15+ minutes late
Scheduled time on the ground
2.1 hours
Median at DEN between the inbound and this departure

The aircraft flying UA1805 came in 15 or more minutes late on 18% 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 DEN just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 570 of 658 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

UA1805 against all flights with a scheduled turn of 90 minutes to 3 hours
Share of departuresInbound landed 15+ late
UA180518%
Network, same turn23%

The schedule leaves a long gap on the ground, which gives a late aircraft room to catch up before this flight pushes back.

The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 90 minutes to 3 hours. How often UA1805’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than 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 DEN late, does that still matter by the time it reaches HNL?

Leaves the gate
29.2 minutes late
Average over 658 pushbacks
Taxi out at DEN
21.7 min
17.8 min for the airport in this hour
Taxi in at HNL
7.3 min
8.3 min for a typical HNL arrival
Reaches the gate at HNL
21.0 minutes late
Average over 640 arrivals

UA1805 pushes back an average of 29.2 minutes late and reaches the gate at HNL an average of 21.0 minutes late. The 8.3 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 21.7 minutes on the taxiways at DEN, 3.9 minutes longer than a typical DEN departure in the same hour.

On arrival at HNL, UA1805 spends 7.3 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 about what any arrival at HNL spends on the ground before reaching the gate.

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 HNL. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 46,366 departures from DEN scheduled in the clock hour UA1805 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at HNL (186,355 flights), not just UA1805’s own. More on taxi time.

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

The hour it leaves DEN

Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. UA1805 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.

UA180566.3%
All DEN departures, 4 PM–5 PM70.2%
All DEN departures, whole day76.0%

On-time arrival rate. 46,366 departures from DEN are scheduled in the 4 PM–5 PM hour over the period, against 963,099 across the whole day.

UA1805 is scheduled out of DEN at 4:10 PM, in the 4 PM–5 PM bank. Departures from DEN in that hour arrive on time 70.2% of the time against 76.0% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 5.8 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 · July 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Other routes UA1805 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.

Other routes UA1805 has flown
RouteOperatedFlightsOn time
DEN→DFW Denver to Dallas–Fort WorthJanuary 6, 2026 – February 11, 202632—
CLE→EWR Cleveland to NewarkOctober 27, 2024 – December 17, 202546—
LAX→BWI Los Angeles to BaltimoreOctober 26, 2025 – December 1, 202532—
CLT→EWR Charlotte to NewarkAugust 19, 2025 – September 24, 202532—
MSP→DEN Minneapolis to DenverMay 22, 2025 – June 25, 202529—
DEN→ABQ Denver to AlbuquerqueFebruary 13, 2025 – March 5, 202518—
DEN→LGA Denver to New YorkJanuary 7, 2025 – February 12, 202532—
DCA→IAH Washington to HoustonAugust 19, 2024 – December 18, 202447—
BOS→EWR Boston to NewarkSeptember 26, 2024 – October 25, 202426—
LGA→ORD New York to ChicagoFebruary 15, 2024 – March 6, 202421—
ORD→DEN Chicago to DenverJanuary 9, 2024 – February 14, 202437—
RSW→ORD Fort Myers to ChicagoJanuary 9, 2024 – February 14, 202437—
DEN→AUS Denver to AustinJanuary 8, 20241—
MSY→AUS New Orleans to AustinJanuary 2, 20241—
EWR→JAX Newark to JacksonvilleDecember 21–31, 20239—
CVG→ORD Cincinnati / Covington to ChicagoDecember 1–20, 202317—
IAH→SAT Houston to San AntonioOctober 29, 2023 – November 27, 202326—
SAT→ORD San Antonio to ChicagoNovember 26, 20231—
DEN→SMF Denver to SacramentoSeptember 29, 2023 – October 27, 202325—
SMF→ORD Sacramento to ChicagoOctober 1–27, 202316—
AUS→ORD Austin to ChicagoSeptember 5–28, 202321—
LAX→IAD Los Angeles to WashingtonAugust 24, 20231—
MSN→DEN Madison to DenverJuly 2–31, 202330—

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA1805 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.

One arrival in ten is worse than

88 min late

against a median of 1 min late

Arrived an hour or more late13.9%
Typical delay when late81 min
Cancelled2.38%
Landed somewhere else2.38%

UA1805 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 1 min late, but the worst tenth are 87 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 672 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.

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

Other flights on this route

Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.

Other flights on this route
FlightAirlineOn timeMedian arrivalOperations
UA384United Airlines79.5%6 min early1,127
UA1805 this flightUnited Airlines66.3%1 min late672

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. UA1805 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.

Data and methodology

Calculated by FlyerIntel from 672 records of UA1805 operating DEN → HNL, 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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