Flight number record
UA 2008
United Airlines · Chicago to Orlando
- Route
- ORD → MCO
- Departs
- 11:00
- Flights
- 328
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2008, check with United Airlines.
UA 2008 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 a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 328 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 2008 runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 42 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 320 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.52%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
11.9%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 328 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.9% 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 2008 flies
UA 2008 flies ORD to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:00, used on 78 of 328 flights, with 10:45 (56 flights) and 10:35 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 11:0078 flights23.8%
- Departs 10:4556 flights17.1%
- Departs 10:3541 flights12.5%
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 11:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and UA 2008 runs 5 points worse at 73.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
UA 2008 next to ORD to MCO
Every carrier on ORD to MCO combined arrived on time 72.2% of the time across 6,347 flights, so UA 2008 is about level with it. United flew 2,459 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.7% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2008thin sample | 328 | 73.4% | 76 min | 1.52% | C |
| All United Airlines on ORD–MCO | 2,459 | 78.7% | 70 min | 0.61% | B+ |
| All carriers on ORD–MCO | 6,347 | 72.2% | 76 min | 1.56% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 2008 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2008 held fairly steady: 72.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 76.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 68.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 76.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202561 flights72.1%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights76.1%
- Jan–Mar 202684 flights68.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.1%
Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2008 did best on Thursday at 80.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 64.6%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 2008 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 6,480 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%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 20%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
43% 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 6,480 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 15 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 6,480 delay minutes reported on UA 2008.
Cancellations sit at 1.52% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.91%.
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. 11.9% 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 1,005 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 ROC to ORD (134), SAT to ORD (37) and DEN to EGE (31), but none flew often enough under UA 2008 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ORD to MCO only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 328 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 2008
For a booking, read UA 2008 as 73.4% on time with 1.52% cancelled over 328 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to MCO, every carrier and departure
- MCO to ORD, the return direction
- United Airlines 2280 on the same route88.6%
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- United Airlines on-time record
- Every United Airlines flight number with a record
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- 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.