Flight number record

UA 1492

United Airlines · Chicago to Columbus

Route: ORD → CMH
Departs: 18:10
Flights: 364
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1492, check with United Airlines.

UA 1492 draws a D. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 1492 runs 13 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 134 extra late arrivals.

On time

64.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights

Avg delay

75 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.47%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

14.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.4% 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 1492 flies

UA 1492 flies ORD to CMH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:10, used on 73 of 364 flights, with 17:55 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 18:1073 flights20.1%
Departs 17:5537 flights10.2%

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 18:10 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and UA 1492 runs 4 points worse at 64.2%. 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 1492 next to ORD to CMH

Every carrier on ORD to CMH combined arrived on time 73.1% of the time across 4,843 flights, so UA 1492 is 9 points behind it. United flew 1,213 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 71.4% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 15 points.

UA 1492 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 1492thin sample	364	64.2%	75 min	2.47%	D
All United Airlines on ORD–CMH	1,213	71.4%	70 min	1.48%	C
All carriers on ORD–CMH	4,843	73.1%	75 min	2.58%	C
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 1492 quarter by quarter

UA 1492 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 73.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 53.3%, a swing of 20 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 flights53.3%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights69.2%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights60.9%
Apr–Jun 202690 flights73.6%

Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 1492 did best on Tuesday at 77.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 52.9%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 1492 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 9,527 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
53%
Carrier
25%
National Airspace System
16%
Extreme weather
5%

53% 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 9,527 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 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 9,527 delay minutes reported on UA 1492.

Cancellations sit at 2.47% 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. 14.4% 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 same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including LAX to ORD (31), PDX to ORD (18) and CMH to SFO (3), but none flew often enough under UA 1492 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ORD to CMH only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 364 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 1492

For a booking, UA 1492 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 14.4% 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