Flight number record
UA 1361
United Airlines · Houston to Fort Myers
- Route
- IAH → RSW
- Departs
- 12:25
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1361, check with United Airlines.
UA 1361 earns a B+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1361's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 69 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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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 365 flights, with 12:19 (82 flights) and 12:40 (43 flights) next.
- Departs 12:2590 flights24.7%
- Departs 12:1982 flights22.5%
- Departs 12:4043 flights11.8%
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 12:25 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and UA 1361 runs 6 points better at 84.2%. 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 1361 next to IAH to RSW
Every carrier on IAH to RSW combined arrived on time 85.3% of the time across 864 flights, so UA 1361 is about level with it. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1361 | 365 | 84.2% | 61 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| All United Airlines on IAH–RSW | 864 | 85.3% | 59 min | 0.12% | A+ |
| All carriers on IAH–RSW | 864 | 85.3% | 59 min | 0.12% | A+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | 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 2026 at 77.4%, a swing of 14 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 202530 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights85.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights91.1%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights81.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights77.4%
Scale runs 70% to 95%.
By weekday, UA 1361 did best on Thursday at 94.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 74.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1361 runs when it is late
UA 1361 often beats the schedule: 142 of 361 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 57 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 19 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early142 flights39.3%
- Within 15 min162 flights44.9%
- 15–29 min late22 flights6.1%
- 30–59 min late16 flights4.4%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights3.6%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 361 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
13 of 53 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. 17 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 1361
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 May 2026, 5 hours 2 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across May, March, January and June, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 May 2026 | 5 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 4 hours 34 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 3 January 2026 | 3 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 January 2026 | 2 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 June 2026 | 2 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
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 3,452 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 36%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,230 of the 3,452 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,452 delay minutes reported on UA 1361.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% 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
5.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 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.
The same number turns up on eight other city pairs in the data, including RSW to IAD (126), BDL to IAH (97) and RSW to CLE (69), 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. 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 1361
For a booking, read UA 1361 as 84.2% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- IAH to RSW, every carrier and departure
- RSW to IAH, the return direction
- George Bush Intercontinental (IAH) delay statistics
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.