Flight number record
UA 2008
United Airlines · Chicago to Orlando
- Route
- ORD → MCO
- Departs
- 11:00
- Flights
- 359
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2008, check with United Airlines.
UA 2008 sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 359 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
75.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 348 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.39%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 359 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 119 of 359 flights, with 10:45 (56 flights) next.
- Departs 11:00119 flights33.1%
- Departs 10:4556 flights15.6%
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 11:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and UA 2008 runs 3 points worse at 75.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
UA 2008 next to ORD to MCO
Every carrier on ORD to MCO combined arrived on time 72.8% of the time across 6,220 flights, so UA 2008 is 3 points ahead of it. United flew 2,537 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.0% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2008thin sample | 359 | 75.3% | 70 min | 1.39% | B |
| All United Airlines on ORD–MCO | 2,537 | 79.0% | 70 min | 0.71% | B+ |
| All carriers on ORD–MCO | 6,220 | 72.8% | 75 min | 1.61% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2008 quarter by quarter
UA 2008 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 81.4% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 68.7%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 72 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 202530 flights76.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights76.1%
- Jan–Mar 202684 flights68.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights81.4%
Scale runs 60% to 85%.
By weekday, UA 2008 did best on Thursday at 82.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 61.5%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2008 runs when it is late
UA 2008 often beats the schedule: 108 of 348 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 86 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 31 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 33 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early108 flights31.0%
- Within 15 min154 flights44.3%
- 15–29 min late22 flights6.3%
- 30–59 min late31 flights8.9%
- 1–2 hours late20 flights5.7%
- 2+ hours late13 flights3.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 348 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
22 of 88 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. In the other direction, 20 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at MCO.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2008
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 July 2026, 10 hours 6 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 July 2026 | 10 hours 6 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 9 March 2026 | 4 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 December 2025 | 3 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 May 2026 | 3 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 May 2026 | 3 hours 20 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why UA 2008 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 6,055 reported delay minutes.
- 32%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 25%National Airspace System
- 13%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 13% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,055 delay minutes reported on UA 2008.
Cancellations sit at 1.39% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.67%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
9.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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.
The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including ROC to ORD (155), MCO to SFO (31) and PIT to ORD (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. 359 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 75.3% on time with 1.39% cancelled over 359 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.