Flight number record
UA 1382
United Airlines · Salt Lake City to Chicago
- Route
- SLC → ORD
- Departs
- 12:42
- Flights
- 323
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1382, check with United Airlines.
UA 1382 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 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 323 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
74.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 316 completed flights
Avg delay
96 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.24%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
10.8%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 323 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.8% 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 1382 flies
UA 1382 flies SLC to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:42, used on 83 of 323 flights, with 12:41 (59 flights) and 12:34 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 12:4283 flights25.7%
- Departs 12:4159 flights18.3%
- Departs 12:3436 flights11.1%
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 12:42 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and UA 1382 runs 5 points worse at 74.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
UA 1382 next to SLC to ORD
Every carrier on SLC to ORD combined arrived on time 75.3% of the time across 3,198 flights, so UA 1382 is about level with it. United flew 1,069 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.4% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1382thin sample | 323 | 74.1% | 96 min | 1.24% | C |
| All United Airlines on SLC–ORD | 1,069 | 75.4% | 89 min | 1.12% | B |
| All carriers on SLC–ORD | 3,198 | 75.3% | 90 min | 1.22% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 1382 quarter by quarter
UA 1382 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 81.4% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 69.4%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 81 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 flights73.3%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights70.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights81.4%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights69.4%
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1382 did best on Tuesday at 80.9% on time and worst on Sunday at 66.7%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 1382 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 43% of the 7,863 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.
- 43%National Airspace System
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
43% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 3,403 minutes out of 7,863, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 7,863 delay minutes reported on UA 1382.
Cancellations sit at 1.24% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.93%.
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. 10.8% 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 1,250 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 four other city pairs in the data, including ORD to MCO (94), STL to ORD (41) and ORD to CLE (37), but none flew often enough under UA 1382 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SLC to ORD only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 323 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 1382
For a booking, read UA 1382 as 74.1% on time with 1.24% cancelled over 323 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- SLC to ORD, every carrier and departure
- ORD to SLC, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 2413 on the same route74.0%
- Delta Air Lines 2247 on the same route85.5%
- Salt Lake City International (SLC) delay statistics
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.