Flight profile · United Airlines
UA2022
San Juan (SJU) to Washington (IAD) · scheduled 7:25 AM – 11:10 AM
How UA2022 performs
674 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
UA2022 arrived on time 95.2% of the time, against 85.8% for all SJU → IAD flights, so this departure is 9.4 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 8.2 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 674 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If UA2022 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 UA2022 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight stays close to typical even on its worst days, a smaller gap than 97% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.
A typical arrival is 14 min early, and the worst tenth are only 18 minutes worse than that.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – 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 UA2022 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA2022 | 95.2% | 0.59% | -14 min | 0.9% | 674 |
| United Airlines on SJU → IAD | 87.0% | 0.70% | -9 min | 3.4% | 1,579 |
| All SJU → IAD flights | 85.8% | 0.71% | -9 min | 3.8% | 1,683 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why UA2022 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
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA2022 on SJU → IAD. 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 UA2022 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
UA2022 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 9.9 hours on the ground at SJU, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, UA2022 pushed back an average of 5 minutes early; when it came in on time or early, an average of 4 minutes early.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into SJU just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 587 of 670 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UA2022 | 30% | 2% | 3% |
| 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 UA2022’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often UA2022 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 July 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves SJU late, does that still matter by the time it reaches IAD?
UA2022 pushes back an average of 1.1 minutes early and reaches the gate at IAD an average of 8.6 minutes early. The 7.4 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 14.6 minutes on the taxiways at SJU is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at IAD, UA2022 spends 6.1 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 IAD arrival (7.5 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 IAD. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 7,941 departures from SJU scheduled in the clock hour UA2022 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at IAD (169,930 flights), not just UA2022’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves SJU
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. UA2022 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 7,941 departures from SJU are scheduled in the 7 AM–8 AM hour over the period, against 109,598 across the whole day.
UA2022 is scheduled out of SJU at 7:25 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from SJU in that hour arrive on time 90.4% of the time against 76.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 14.3 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from SJU 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 UA2022 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→ORD Newark to Chicago | September 25, 2025 – October 25, 2025 | 31 | — |
| ORD→BOS Chicago to Boston | August 19, 2025 – September 24, 2025 | 37 | — |
| MSO→DEN Missoula to Denver | December 3–18, 2024 | 16 | — |
| SFO→SAN San Francisco to San Diego | October 28, 2024 – December 2, 2024 | 26 | — |
| MSY→IAH New Orleans to Houston | November 30, 2024 – December 1, 2024 | 2 | — |
| MSP→SFO Minneapolis to San Francisco | September 26, 2024 – October 26, 2024 | 31 | — |
| ORD→CHS Chicago to Charleston | September 1–25, 2024 | 25 | — |
| SJC→DEN San Jose to Denver | November 1–27, 2023 | 26 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA2022 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.
4 min late
against a median of 14 min early
Percentiles over 674 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.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA2022 this flight | United Airlines | 95.2% | 14 min early | 674 |
| UA2024 | United Airlines | 80.9% | 6 min early | 905 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. UA2022 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 674 records of UA2022 operating SJU → IAD, 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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