Flight profile · United Airlines
UA446
Newark (EWR) to Las Vegas (LAS) · scheduled 10:00 AM – 12:49 PM
How UA446 performs
760 operations, March 2024 – July 2026.
UA446 arrived on time 82.5% of the time, against 78.1% for all EWR → LAS flights, so this departure is 4.4 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 3.0 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 760 operations, March 2024 – July 2026 · If UA446 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where UA446 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA446 | 82.5% | 1.05% | -9 min | 4.8% | 760 |
| United Airlines on EWR → LAS | 79.5% | 1.49% | -10 min | 8.2% | 7,724 |
| All EWR → LAS flights | 78.1% | 1.68% | -9 min | 9.0% | 9,441 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · March 2024 – July 2026
Why UA446 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
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA446 on EWR → LAS. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering March 2024 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies UA446 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying UA446 came in 15 or more minutes late on 10% 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 EWR just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 648 of 752 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 |
|---|---|
| UA446 | 10% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
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 UA446’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 March 2024 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves EWR late, does that still matter by the time it reaches LAS?
UA446 pushes back an average of 5.9 minutes late and reaches the gate at LAS an average of 2.4 minutes early. The 8.2 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 25.4 minutes on the taxiways at EWR, 1.4 minutes longer than a typical EWR departure in the same hour.
On arrival at LAS, UA446 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 1.0 minutes longer than a typical LAS arrival (7.7 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 LAS. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 23,655 departures from EWR scheduled in the clock hour UA446 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at LAS (569,643 flights), not just UA446’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · March 2024 – July 2026
The hour it leaves EWR
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. UA446 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 23,655 departures from EWR are scheduled in the 10 AM–11 AM hour over the period, against 387,621 across the whole day.
UA446 is scheduled out of EWR at 10:00 AM, in the 10 AM–11 AM bank. Departures from EWR in that hour arrive on time 82.3% of the time against 77.7% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 4.6 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from EWR 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 · March 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes UA446 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAS→LAX Las Vegas to Los Angeles | June 27, 2026 – July 25, 2026 | 5 | — |
| FCA→EWR Kalispell to Newark | June 13–20, 2026 | 2 | — |
| LAS→IAH Las Vegas to Houston | February 12, 2026 – March 4, 2026 | 21 | — |
| MIA→EWR Miami to Newark | May 1, 2025 – June 25, 2025 | 56 | — |
| BOS→DEN Boston to Denver | May 23, 2024 – June 26, 2024 | 24 | — |
| XNA→IAH Fayetteville/Springdale/Rogers to Houston | June 4–8, 2024 | 2 | — |
| MTJ→ORD Montrose to Chicago | March 9–30, 2024 | 4 | — |
| AUS→IAH Austin to Houston | March 7–29, 2024 | 20 | — |
| COS→DEN Colorado Springs to Denver | February 15, 2024 – March 6, 2024 | 21 | — |
| MCO→EWR Orlando to Newark | July 1, 2023 – February 14, 2024 | 229 | 91.9% |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA446 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.
30 min late
against a median of 9 min early
Percentiles over 760 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering March 2024 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 760 records of UA446 operating EWR → LAS, 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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