Flight number record

UA 1213

United Airlines · Newark to Orlando

Route: EWR → MCO
Departs: 14:35
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 1213 runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 53 extra late arrivals.

On time

72.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 358 completed flights

Avg delay

91 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.10%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

12.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

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 365 flights, with 14:30 (62 flights) and 14:40 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 14:3574 flights20.3%
Departs 14:3062 flights17.0%
Departs 14:4037 flights10.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

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 72.4%, and UA 1213 runs level with that at 72.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

UA 1213 next to EWR to MCO

Every carrier on EWR to MCO combined arrived on time 77.1% of the time across 6,629 flights, so UA 1213 is 5 points behind it. United flew 4,014 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.4% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 7 points.

UA 1213 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 1213	365	72.3%	91 min	1.10%	C
All United Airlines on EWR–MCO	4,014	79.4%	76 min	1.82%	B
All carriers on EWR–MCO	6,629	77.1%	81 min	2.88%	B
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	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 2025 at 62.2%, 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 202592 flights62.2%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights73.6%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights72.1%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights81.3%

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

By weekday, UA 1213 ranged from 69.2% on Saturday to 76.9% on Thursday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

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 8,987 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
32%
National Airspace System
31%
Carrier
29%
Extreme weather
9%

No single cause dominates. late-arriving aircraft at 32%, national airspace system at 31% and carrier at 29% split the 8,987 reported delay minutes between them. An even spread like this usually means the operation is running close to its designed capacity with no one obvious weak point, and it is the hardest pattern for a traveller to route around. The split is drawn from 8,987 delay minutes reported on UA 1213.

Cancellations sit at 1.10% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.82%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 12.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including MCO to LAX (133), 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. 365 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. 12.6% 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

Key figures