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UA1836

Denver (DEN) to Milwaukee (MKE) · scheduled 10:02 AM – 1:25 PM

This page describes how UA1836 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 UA1836 performs

673 operations, August 2024 – July 2026.

On-time arrivals
84.4%
566 of 671 completed
Cancellation rate
0.00%
0 cancelled
Median arrival delay
-6 min
Average 0.9 min
Severe delays
3.0%
Arrived 60+ minutes late
Delay when late
49 min
Average, when 15+ min late
Departure punctuality
85.1%
Left the gate on time

UA1836 arrived on time 84.4% of the time, against 75.1% for all DEN → MKE flights, so this departure is 9.3 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 6.8 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 673 operations, August 2024 – July 2026 · If UA1836 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

Where UA1836 is right now

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Against the rest of the route

Against the rest of the route
Flight or routeOn timeCancelledMedian delaySevereFlights
UA183684.4%0.00%-6 min3.0%673
United Airlines on DEN → MKE77.6%0.36%-4 min7.5%1,966
All DEN → MKE flights75.1%0.79%-3 min8.4%7,969

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

Why UA1836 runs late

Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA1836 on DEN → MKE. 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 UA1836 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.

Inbound aircraft late
13%
67 of 534 departures came in 15+ minutes late
Scheduled time on the ground
66 minutes
Median at DEN between the inbound and this departure

The aircraft flying UA1836 came in 15 or more minutes late on 13% 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, 534 of 673 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

UA1836 against all flights with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes
Share of departuresInbound landed 15+ late
UA183613%
Network, same turn17%

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 UA1836’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 August 2024 – July 2026

From pushback to gate

When it leaves DEN late, does that still matter by the time it reaches MKE?

Leaves the gate
5.6 minutes late
Average over 673 pushbacks
Taxi out at DEN
19.0 min
20.5 min for the airport in this hour
Taxi in at MKE
7.2 min
5.7 min for a typical MKE arrival
Reaches the gate at MKE
0.9 minutes late
Average over 671 arrivals

UA1836 pushes back an average of 5.6 minutes late and reaches the gate at MKE an average of 0.9 minutes late. 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. It spends 19.0 minutes on the taxiways at DEN, 1.5 minutes shorter than a typical DEN departure in the same hour.

On arrival at MKE, UA1836 spends 7.2 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 1.5 minutes longer than a typical MKE arrival (5.7 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 MKE. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 60,415 departures from DEN scheduled in the clock hour UA1836 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at MKE (87,872 flights), not just UA1836’s own. More on taxi time.

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

The hour it leaves DEN

Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. UA1836 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.

UA183684.4%
All DEN departures, 10 AM–11 AM81.3%
All DEN departures, whole day76.0%

On-time arrival rate. 60,415 departures from DEN are scheduled in the 10 AM–11 AM hour over the period, against 963,099 across the whole day.

UA1836 is scheduled out of DEN at 10:02 AM, in the 10 AM–11 AM bank. Departures from DEN in that hour arrive on time 81.3% of the time against 76.0% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 5.3 points better 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 · August 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Other routes UA1836 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 UA1836 has flown
RouteOperatedFlightsOn time
PBI→DEN West Palm Beach to DenverJanuary 8, 2026 – February 9, 202626—
SAN→DEN San Diego to DenverDecember 18, 2025 – January 5, 202619—
MSP→DEN Minneapolis to DenverMarch 30, 2025 – April 30, 202532—
RAP→DEN Rapid City to DenverMarch 6–29, 202524—
PHX→DEN Phoenix to DenverJanuary 7, 2025 – February 12, 202531—
ORD→DCA Chicago to WashingtonJanuary 9, 2024 – August 18, 202421768.4%
ABQ→ORD Albuquerque to ChicagoAugust 1–17, 202417—
TUS→ORD Tucson to ChicagoMay 2–22, 202421—
SMF→ORD Sacramento to ChicagoMarch 31, 20241—
SRQ→ORD Sarasota/Bradenton to ChicagoJanuary 9, 2024 – March 30, 202461—
RSW→ORD Fort Myers to ChicagoFebruary 15, 2024 – March 6, 202421—
ORD→SFO Chicago to San FranciscoJuly 1, 2023 – January 8, 202419178.9%
SAV→ORD Savannah to ChicagoOctober 29, 2023 – November 27, 202329—
SFO→PDX San Francisco to PortlandOctober 29, 2023 – November 27, 202329—
RDU→ORD Raleigh–Durham to ChicagoOctober 1–28, 202327—

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA1836 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

21 min late

against a median of 6 min early

Arrived an hour or more late3.0%
Typical delay when late49 min
Cancelled0.00%
Landed somewhere else0.30%

Percentiles over 673 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.

Other flights on this route
FlightAirlineOn timeMedian arrivalOperations
UA1836 this flightUnited Airlines84.4%6 min early673
OO4806SkyWest Airlines74.8%6 min early625

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. UA1836 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 673 records of UA1836 operating DEN → MKE, 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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