Flight profile · United Airlines
UA1827
San Diego (SAN) to Newark (EWR) · scheduled 10:30 PM – 6:30 AM
How UA1827 performs
1,006 operations, October 2023 – July 2026.
UA1827 arrived on time 89.2% of the time, against 81.7% for all SAN → EWR flights, so this departure is 7.5 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 6.4 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 1,006 operations, October 2023 – July 2026 · If UA1827 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where UA1827 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA1827 | 89.2% | 1.89% | -13 min | 3.5% | 1,006 |
| United Airlines on SAN → EWR | 82.8% | 1.92% | -10 min | 6.5% | 3,905 |
| All SAN → EWR flights | 81.7% | 1.98% | -10 min | 7.1% | 4,909 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2023 – July 2026
Why UA1827 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA1827 on SAN → EWR. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies UA1827 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, UA1827 pushed back an average of 25 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 1 minute early.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into SAN just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 966 of 987 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UA1827 | 20% | 36% | 5% |
| Network, same turn | 23% | 40% | 9% |
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 UA1827’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often UA1827 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 October 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves SAN late, does that still matter by the time it reaches EWR?
UA1827 pushes back an average of 6.2 minutes late and reaches the gate at EWR an average of 4.7 minutes early. The 10.9 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 22.2 minutes on the taxiways at SAN, 1.5 minutes longer than a typical SAN departure in the same hour.
On arrival at EWR, UA1827 spends 8.7 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 1.4 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 11,726 departures from SAN scheduled in the clock hour UA1827 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 UA1827’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves SAN
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. UA1827 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 11,726 departures from SAN are scheduled in the 10 PM–11 PM hour over the period, against 297,668 across the whole day.
UA1827 is scheduled out of SAN at 10:30 PM, in the 10 PM–11 PM bank. Departures from SAN in that hour arrive on time 87.6% of the time against 77.9% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 9.7 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from SAN 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.
By day of week
Does UA1827 run worse on particular days?
Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 10.2 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes UA1827 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.
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA1827 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.
15 min late
against a median of 13 min early
Percentiles over 1,006 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2023 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA1827 this flight | United Airlines | 89.2% | 13 min early | 1,006 |
| UA427 | United Airlines | 82.0% | 9 min early | 973 |
| UA327 | United Airlines | 79.3% | 9 min early | 976 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. UA1827 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 1,006 records of UA1827 operating SAN → 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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