Flight number record
UA 1926
United Airlines · Washington to Orlando
- Route
- IAD → MCO
- Departs
- 09:45
- Flights
- 262
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 1926, check with United Airlines.
UA 1926 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 262 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 1926's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 127 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 260 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.38%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 262 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 16 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 1926 flies
UA 1926 flies IAD to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:45, used on 58 of 262 flights, with 09:35 (55 flights) and 10:07 (52 flights) next.
- Departs 09:4558 flights22.1%
- Departs 09:3555 flights21.0%
- Departs 10:0752 flights19.8%
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 09:45 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and UA 1926 runs 6 points better at 90.0%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
UA 1926 next to IAD to MCO
Every carrier on IAD to MCO combined arrived on time 80.7% of the time across 2,180 flights, so UA 1926 is 9 points ahead of it. United flew 1,874 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.5% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 1926thin sample | 262 | 90.0% | 71 min | 0.38% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on IAD–MCO | 1,874 | 82.5% | 69 min | 0.91% | B+ |
| All carriers on IAD–MCO | 2,180 | 80.7% | 76 min | 1.10% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 1926 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 1926 held fairly steady: 96.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 87.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 94.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights88.6%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights94.0%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 1926 did best on Wednesday at 100.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 75.0%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 1926 runs when it is late
UA 1926 often beats the schedule: 144 of 260 completed flights, 55%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 26 late arrivals split 9 under half an hour, 5 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early144 flights55.4%
- Within 15 min90 flights34.6%
- 15–29 min late9 flights3.5%
- 30–59 min late5 flights1.9%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights2.3%
- 2+ hours late6 flights2.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 260 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 27 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. 6 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 1926
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 November 2025, 3 hours 9 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 November 2025 | 3 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 September 2025 | 2 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 December 2025 | 2 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 February 2026 | 2 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 April 2026 | 2 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 1926 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 1,848 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 58%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
58% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 1,848 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. The split is drawn from 1,848 delay minutes reported on UA 1926.
Cancellations are rare at 0.38%, below the national 1.89% 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 758 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 four other city pairs in the data, including PWM to IAD (79), IAD to CLE (69) and RSW to EWR (21), but none flew often enough under UA 1926 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IAD to MCO only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 262 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 1926
For a booking, UA 1926 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 90.0% on time and 0.38% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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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.