UA740

UA740 arrived on time 84.8% of the time, against 79.3% for all IAH → PDX flights, so this departure is 5.5 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against United Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 5.3 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 864 operations, December 2023 – July 2026 · If UA740 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · December 2023 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for UA740 on IAH → PDX. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering December 2023 – July 2026

The aircraft flying UA740 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 IAH just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 579 of 859 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.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering December 2023 – July 2026

UA740 pushes back an average of 10.7 minutes late and reaches the gate at PDX an average of 2.0 minutes late. The 8.7 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 21.5 minutes on the taxiways at IAH is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.

On arrival at PDX, UA740 spends 4.0 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 1.1 minutes shorter than a typical PDX arrival (5.1 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 PDX. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 27,050 departures from IAH scheduled in the clock hour UA740 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at PDX (187,629 flights), not just UA740’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · December 2023 – July 2026

UA740 is scheduled out of IAH at 9:30 AM, in the 9 AM–10 AM bank. Departures from IAH in that hour arrive on time 82.7% of the time against 77.4% 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 IAH 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 · December 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · December 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route UA740 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering December 2023 – July 2026

• UA1247 DEN→PDX United Airlines flight into PDX, DEN to PDX, departs 7:45 AM, on time 89.6%
• UA644 DEN→PDX United Airlines flight into PDX, DEN to PDX, departs 11:55 AM, on time 83.8%
• UA496 IAH→MCO United Airlines flight out of IAH, IAH to MCO, departs 2:35 PM, on time 77.2%