Flight Status & Tracker

UAL979

UNITED AIRLINES INC · EDI → IAD · Last tracked Oct 20, 2026

UAL979 is a flight number operated by UNITED AIRLINES INC between Edinburgh Airport (EGPH) and Washington Dulles International Airport (KIAD). SkyMeter last tracked UAL979 on October 20, 2026. The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 757-200. Typical block time is 7h 17m. SkyMeter has observed 84 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

SkyMeter tracks historical flight activity from ADS-B data — this is not a live gate-to-gate status feed.

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FLIGHTS
84
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
7h 17m
tracked time
📅
SERVICE PERIOD
5/27/2025 → 10/20/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
7 / 1
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
0.0%
0 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

4
74
avg 7h 46m · Edinburgh → Washington Dulles
1
avg 7h 28m · Edinburgh → General Edward Lawrence Logan
1
avg 3h 7m · General Edward Lawrence Logan → Pittsburgh
1
avg 7h 35m · Edinburgh → Portland International Jetport

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

1

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
0
Rejected TO
0
Stall warnings
0
Overspeeds
0
Runway excursion
0
Counts represent flights with at least one occurrence of each flag, not the total event count. See /incidents for individual events.

Recent flights

Newest 30 operations of UAL979

30
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