Flight profile · United Airlines
UA1833
Boston (BOS) to Newark (EWR) · scheduled 6:00 AM – 7:29 AM
How UA1833 performs
662 operations, August 2024 – July 2026.
UA1833 arrived on time 92.7% of the time, against 77.3% for all BOS → EWR flights, so this departure is 15.4 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 14.9 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 662 operations, August 2024 – July 2026 · If UA1833 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How UA1833 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far ahead of the BOS → EWR route as a whole, better than 98% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.
92.7% on time for this specific departure, against 77.3% for every BOS → EWR flight.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · August 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.
Where UA1833 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA1833 | 92.7% | 2.11% | -11 min | 2.3% | 662 |
| United Airlines on BOS → EWR | 77.8% | 3.24% | -9 min | 10.2% | 8,373 |
| All BOS → EWR flights | 77.3% | 3.85% | -9 min | 10.0% | 12,192 |
UA1833 has cancelled 2.11% of its scheduled departures (14 of 662), against 3.85% for all BOS → EWR flights — this specific departure cancels 1.7 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 UA1833 specifically, not about the route it flies.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · August 2024 – July 2026
Why UA1833 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
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
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA1833 on BOS → EWR. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering August 2024 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies UA1833 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
UA1833 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 7.8 hours on the ground at BOS, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, UA1833 pushed back an average of 2 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 3 minutes early.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into BOS just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 628 of 650 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UA1833 | 34% | 7% | 4% |
| Network, same turn | 29% | 12% | 9% |
A night on the ground absorbs most of a late arrival, so a late inbound matters far less on a turn this long than on a same-day one.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 6 hours or more, usually overnight. How often UA1833’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often UA1833 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 August 2024 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves BOS late, does that still matter by the time it reaches EWR?
UA1833 pushes back an average of 1.6 minutes early and reaches the gate at EWR an average of 6.3 minutes early. The 4.6 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. Its 20.3 minutes on the taxiways at BOS is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at EWR, UA1833 spends 9.8 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 about what any arrival at EWR 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 EWR. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 36,667 departures from BOS scheduled in the clock hour UA1833 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 UA1833’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · August 2024 – July 2026
The hour it leaves BOS
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. UA1833 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 36,667 departures from BOS are scheduled in the 6 AM–7 AM hour over the period, against 440,893 across the whole day.
UA1833 is scheduled out of BOS at 6:00 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from BOS in that hour arrive on time 88.8% of the time against 77.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 11.6 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from BOS 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 · August 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes UA1833 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EWR→CLE Newark to Cleveland | May 21, 2026 – July 31, 2026 | 67 | — |
| EWR→SLC Newark to Salt Lake City | March 29, 2026 – April 5, 2026 | 2 | — |
| PWM→EWR Portland to Newark | March 29, 2026 | 1 | — |
| EWR→PSP Newark to Palm Springs | March 5–28, 2026 | 24 | — |
| EWR→LAS Newark to Las Vegas | January 6, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 36 | — |
| EWR→RDU Newark to Raleigh–Durham | December 18, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 19 | — |
| EWR→EYW Newark to Key West | October 26, 2025 – December 1, 2025 | 37 | — |
| EWR→ATL Newark to Atlanta | February 13, 2025 – September 24, 2025 | 47 | — |
| EWR→BNA Newark to Nashville | May 22–31, 2025 | 9 | — |
| DEN→EWR Denver to Newark | August 25, 2024 | 1 | — |
| LAX→IAH Los Angeles to Houston | June 27, 2024 – August 18, 2024 | 53 | — |
| IAH→SJU Houston to San Juan | July 1, 2023 – June 23, 2024 | 49 | — |
| EWR→SFO Newark to San Francisco | March 7–30, 2024 | 24 | — |
| EWR→MCO Newark to Orlando | February 15, 2024 – March 6, 2024 | 21 | — |
| ORD→EWR Chicago to Newark | January 9, 2024 – February 14, 2024 | 37 | — |
| SMF→ORD Sacramento to Chicago | October 29, 2023 – January 8, 2024 | 25 | — |
| MAF→IAH Midland to Houston | December 1–20, 2023 | 20 | — |
| ORD→BUF Chicago to Buffalo | October 29, 2023 – November 27, 2023 | 29 | — |
| EWR→SAV Newark to Savannah | October 28, 2023 | 1 | — |
| DEN→BOS Denver to Boston | October 1–27, 2023 | 27 | — |
| IND→ORD Indianapolis to Chicago | September 29, 2023 | 1 | — |
| ORD→SDF Chicago to Louisville | September 5–28, 2023 | 24 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA1833 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.
10 min late
against a median of 11 min early
Percentiles over 662 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering August 2024 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA1833 this flight | United Airlines | 92.7% | 11 min early | 662 |
| UA570 | United Airlines | 90.3% | 14 min early | 850 |
| YX5718 | Republic Airways | 58.7% | 4 min late | 628 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. UA1833 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 662 records of UA1833 operating BOS → 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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