Flight number record
UA 1361
United Airlines · Houston to Fort Myers
- Route
- IAH → RSW
- Departs
- 12:25
- Flights
- 316
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1361, check with United Airlines.
UA 1361 earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 316 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1361's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 77 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 312 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
6.1%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 316 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
Schedule
When UA 1361 flies
UA 1361 flies IAH to RSW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:25, used on 90 of 316 flights, with 12:40 (56 flights) and 12:19 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 12:2590 flights28.5%
- Departs 12:4056 flights17.7%
- Departs 12:1941 flights13.0%
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 12:25 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and UA 1361 runs 7 points better at 85.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
UA 1361 next to IAH to RSW
Every carrier on IAH to RSW combined arrived on time 84.3% of the time across 877 flights, so UA 1361 is about level with it. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1361thin sample | 316 | 85.3% | 71 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on IAH–RSW | 877 | 84.3% | 65 min | 0.11% | B+ |
| All carriers on IAH–RSW | 877 | 84.3% | 65 min | 0.11% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 1361 quarter by quarter
UA 1361 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 91.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 79.1%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 79 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 202543 flights79.1%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights85.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights91.1%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights81.8%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1361 did best on Thursday at 97.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 74.4%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 1361 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 3,260 reported delay minutes.
- 38%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 21%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
38% 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 3,260 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 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 3,260 delay minutes reported on UA 1361.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 861 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 nine other city pairs in the data, including RSW to IAD (139), RSW to CLE (69) and ORD to STL (48), but none flew often enough under UA 1361 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IAH to RSW only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 316 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 1361
For a booking, UA 1361 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.3% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- IAH to RSW, every carrier and departure
- RSW to IAH, the return direction
- George Bush Intercontinental (IAH) delay statistics
- Southwest Florida International (RSW) delay statistics
- United Airlines on-time record
- Every United Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.