Flight profile · United Airlines
UA586
Denver (DEN) to Kansas City (MCI) · scheduled 1:30 PM – 4:09 PM
How UA586 performs
1,121 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
UA586 arrived on time 84.0% of the time, against 76.7% for all DEN → MCI flights, so this departure is 7.3 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 · 1,121 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If UA586 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where UA586 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA586 | 84.0% | 0.80% | -7 min | 5.9% | 1,121 |
| United Airlines on DEN → MCI | 77.6% | 0.58% | -4 min | 8.6% | 4,323 |
| All DEN → MCI flights | 76.7% | 0.73% | -3 min | 7.5% | 13,242 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why UA586 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
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA586 on DEN → MCI. 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 UA586 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying UA586 came in 15 or more minutes late on 11% 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, 975 of 1,113 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 |
|---|---|
| UA586 | 11% |
| 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 UA586’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 July 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves DEN late, does that still matter by the time it reaches MCI?
UA586 pushes back an average of 8.0 minutes late and reaches the gate at MCI an average of 3.2 minutes late. The 4.8 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 17.6 minutes on the taxiways at DEN is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at MCI, UA586 spends 6.0 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 MCI 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 MCI. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 83,741 departures from DEN scheduled in the clock hour UA586 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at MCI (152,684 flights), not just UA586’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves DEN
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. UA586 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 83,741 departures from DEN are scheduled in the 1 PM–2 PM hour over the period, against 963,099 across the whole day.
UA586 is scheduled out of DEN at 1:30 PM, in the 1 PM–2 PM bank. Departures from DEN in that hour arrive on time 79.4% of the time against 76.0% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 3.4 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 · July 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
By day of week
Does UA586 run worse on particular days?
Sunday is historically the most reliable day and Friday the least, a gap of 6.7 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes UA586 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SJC→DEN San Jose to Denver | May 21, 2026 – July 31, 2026 | 72 | — |
| LGA→DEN New York to Denver | March 7, 2024 – May 20, 2026 | 158 | 87.3% |
| ORD→LGA Chicago to New York | August 19, 2025 – May 20, 2026 | 83 | — |
| LAX→DEN Los Angeles to Denver | February 18, 2026 – March 4, 2026 | 5 | — |
| PBI→DEN West Palm Beach to Denver | February 12, 2026 – March 2, 2026 | 16 | — |
| MIA→DEN Miami to Denver | January 6, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 36 | — |
| SNA→DEN Santa Ana to Denver | August 19, 2024 – October 26, 2024 | 69 | — |
| SLC→DEN Salt Lake City to Denver | December 24, 2023 – February 14, 2024 | 46 | — |
| EWR→IAD Newark to Washington | January 8, 2024 | 1 | — |
| SJC→IAH San Jose to Houston | November 23, 2023 | 1 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA586 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.
27 min late
against a median of 7 min early
Percentiles over 1,121 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 1,121 records of UA586 operating DEN → MCI, 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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