Flight number record
UA 1301
United Airlines · Chicago to Wichita
- Route
- ORD → ICT
- Departs
- 20:00
- Flights
- 291
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1301, check with United Airlines.
UA 1301 draws a D. Roughly one flight in two arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 291 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 1301 runs 18 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 177 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
59.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 287 completed flights
Avg delay
90 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.37%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
21.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 291 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 21.6% 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 1301 flies
UA 1301 flies ORD to ICT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:00, used on 78 of 291 flights, with 19:53 (37 flights) and 19:55 (31 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 20:0078 flights26.8%
- Departs 19:5337 flights12.7%
- Departs 19:5531 flights10.7%
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 20:00 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and UA 1301 runs 11 points worse at 59.9%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
UA 1301 next to ORD to ICT
Every carrier on ORD to ICT combined arrived on time 65.7% of the time across 2,221 flights, so UA 1301 is 6 points behind it. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 19 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1301thin sample | 291 | 59.9% | 90 min | 1.37% | D |
| All United Airlines on ORD–ICTthin sample | 311 | 60.8% | 89 min | 1.29% | D |
| All carriers on ORD–ICT | 2,221 | 65.7% | 78 min | 2.61% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 1301 quarter by quarter
UA 1301 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 73.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 51.1%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 73 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 202591 flights51.1%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights58.4%
- Jan–Mar 202675 flights66.2%
- Apr–Jun 202635 flights73.5%
Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1301 did best on Wednesday at 69.4% on time and worst on Friday at 51.2%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 1301 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 10,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 60%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 6%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
60% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 10,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 10,393 delay minutes reported on UA 1301.
Cancellations sit at 1.37% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
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. 21.6% 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 588 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 seven other city pairs in the data, including MSY to ORD (77), BOS to ORD (61) and MSP to ORD (16), but none flew often enough under UA 1301 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ORD to ICT only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 291 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 1301
For a booking, UA 1301 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 21.6% 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.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to ICT, every carrier and departure
- ICT to ORD, the return direction
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- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- United Airlines on-time record
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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.