Flight number record

UA 1213

United Airlines · Newark to Orlando

Route: EWR → MCO
Departs: 14:35
Flights: 364
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1213, check with United Airlines.

UA 1213 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so UA 1213 runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 43 extra late arrivals.

On time

73.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights

Avg delay

92 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.65%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

12.4%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.

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Schedule

When UA 1213 flies

UA 1213 flies EWR to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:35, used on 74 of 364 flights, with 14:59 (42 flights) and 15:05 (41 flights) next.

Departs 14:3574 flights20.3%
Departs 14:5942 flights11.5%
Departs 15:0541 flights11.3%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.

A 14:35 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and UA 1213 runs level with that at 73.0%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

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Against the route

UA 1213 next to EWR to MCO

Every carrier on EWR to MCO combined arrived on time 77.9% of the time across 6,391 flights, so UA 1213 is 5 points behind it. United flew 4,019 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.8% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 6 points.

UA 1213 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 1213thin sample	364	73.0%	92 min	1.65%	C
All United Airlines on EWR–MCO	4,019	79.8%	77 min	2.21%	B
All carriers on EWR–MCO	6,391	77.9%	80 min	3.21%	B−
United Airlines, whole network	830,825	78.8%	73 min	1.02%	B

Across the year

UA 1213 quarter by quarter

UA 1213 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 81.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 62.1%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 91 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
Oct–Dec 202592 flights73.6%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights72.1%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights81.3%
Jul–Sep 202661 flights62.1%

Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 1213 did best on Wednesday at 78.8% on time and worst on Saturday at 64.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late UA 1213 runs when it is late

UA 1213 often beats the schedule: 109 of 355 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 96 late arrivals split 25 under half an hour, 27 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 44 an hour or more.

15+ min early109 flights30.7%
Within 15 min150 flights42.3%
15–29 min late25 flights7.0%
30–59 min late27 flights7.6%
1–2 hours late20 flights5.6%
2+ hours late24 flights6.8%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 355 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

20 of 89 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. In the other direction, 27 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at MCO.

The worst days

Worst days for UA 1213

The latest arrival of the period was on 7 August 2026, 7 hours 6 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.

The latest arrivals of UA 1213 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
7 August 2026	7 hours 6 minutes	Extreme weather
26 January 2026	6 hours 53 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
6 August 2026	6 hours 15 minutes	Extreme weather
21 July 2026	6 hours 1 minute	Extreme weather
27 August 2026	5 hours 38 minutes	Extreme weather

Delay causes

Why UA 1213 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 8,803 reported delay minutes.

National Airspace System
29%
Late-arriving aircraft
28%
Carrier
25%
Extreme weather
18%

Extreme weather accounts for 18% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 8,803 delay minutes reported on UA 1213.

Cancellations sit at 1.65% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.82%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

12.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

The 937 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.

The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including MCO to LAX (168), SLC to EWR (36) and MCO to DEN (2), but none flew often enough under UA 1213 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to EWR to MCO only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 364 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

What to do with this

Booking UA 1213

For a booking, UA 1213 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 12.4% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.

Where to go next

A flight number here means United Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

Key figures