Flight number record
UA 2069
United Airlines · Houston to Cincinnati
- Route
- IAH → CVG
- Departs
- 20:22
- Flights
- 325
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2069, check with United Airlines.
UA 2069 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 325 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so UA 2069 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 68 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 322 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.92%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 325 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When UA 2069 flies
UA 2069 flies IAH to CVG without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:22, used on 77 of 325 flights, with 20:13 (72 flights) and 20:15 (52 flights) next.
- Departs 20:2277 flights23.7%
- Departs 20:1372 flights22.2%
- Departs 20:1552 flights16.0%
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 20:22 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and UA 2069 runs level with that at 70.5%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
UA 2069 next to IAH to CVG
Every carrier on IAH to CVG combined arrived on time 75.4% of the time across 694 flights, so UA 2069 is 5 points behind it. United flew 660 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.1% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2069thin sample | 325 | 70.5% | 58 min | 0.92% | C+ |
| All United Airlines on IAH–CVG | 660 | 76.1% | 56 min | 0.76% | B+ |
| All carriers on IAH–CVG | 694 | 75.4% | 56 min | 0.72% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2069 quarter by quarter
UA 2069 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 81.6% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 62.5%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 81 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 20256 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights62.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights81.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights70.3%
- Jul–Sep 202650 flights66.0%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2069 did best on Wednesday at 81.2% on time and worst on Friday at 61.2%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2069 runs when it is late
The 95 late arrivals split 37 under half an hour, 28 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 30 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early70 flights21.7%
- Within 15 min157 flights48.8%
- 15–29 min late37 flights11.5%
- 30–59 min late28 flights8.7%
- 1–2 hours late21 flights6.5%
- 2+ hours late9 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 322 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 87 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% 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 CVG.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2069
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 March 2026, 6 hours 16 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in March 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 March 2026 | 6 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 May 2026 | 3 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 March 2026 | 3 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 December 2025 | 2 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 March 2026 | 2 hours 45 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 2069 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 69% of the 5,542 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 69%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
69% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,542 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 69 to one. The split is drawn from 5,542 delay minutes reported on UA 2069.
Cancellations sit at 0.92% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
9.3% 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 871 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 one other city pair in the data, including EWR to PDX (24), but none flew often enough under UA 2069 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IAH to CVG only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 325 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 2069
For a booking, read UA 2069 as 70.5% on time with 0.92% cancelled over 325 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- George Bush Intercontinental (IAH) delay statistics
- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG) 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.