Flight number record
UA 1568
United Airlines · Chicago to Rochester
- Route
- ORD → ROC
- Departs
- 18:20
- Flights
- 284
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1568, check with United Airlines.
UA 1568 draws a D+. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 284 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 1568 runs 15 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 148 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
62.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 282 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.70%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
10.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 284 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.6% 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 1568 flies
UA 1568 flies ORD to ROC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:20, used on 54 of 284 flights, with 18:08 (37 flights) and 18:02 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 18:2054 flights19.0%
- Departs 18:0837 flights13.0%
- Departs 18:0236 flights12.7%
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 18:20 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and UA 1568 runs 5 points worse at 62.8%. 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 1568 next to ORD to ROC
Every carrier on ORD to ROC combined arrived on time 74.2% of the time across 2,320 flights, so UA 1568 is 11 points behind it. United flew 587 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 63.2% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 16 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1568thin sample | 284 | 62.8% | 67 min | 0.70% | D+ |
| All United Airlines on ORD–ROC | 587 | 63.2% | 66 min | 1.36% | D |
| All carriers on ORD–ROC | 2,320 | 74.2% | 65 min | 2.24% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 1568 quarter by quarter
UA 1568 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 68.2% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 53.9%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 95 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 202519 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202585 flights68.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights59.6%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights53.9%
Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 1568 ranged from 56.1% on Sunday to 67.6% on Saturday. With about 41 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why UA 1568 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 7,049 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.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Carrier
- 21%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
49% 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 7,049 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 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 7,049 delay minutes reported on UA 1568.
Cancellations are rare at 0.70%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
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. 10.6% 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 528 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 six other city pairs in the data, including SFO to ORD (158), DSM to ORD (153) and IAD to BZN (6), but none flew often enough under UA 1568 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ORD to ROC only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 284 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 1568
For a booking, UA 1568 is one of the weaker ways to fly ORD to ROC: 11 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to ROC, every carrier and departure
- ROC to ORD, the return direction
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) 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.