Flight number record
UA 2069
United Airlines · Houston to Cincinnati
- Route
- IAH → CVG
- Departs
- 20:28
- Flights
- 323
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 323 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 2069 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 74 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 319 completed flights
Avg delay
62 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.24%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
10.0%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 323 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.0% 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 2069 flies
UA 2069 flies IAH to CVG without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:28, used on 72 of 323 flights, with 20:22 (56 flights) and 20:15 (52 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 20:2872 flights22.3%
- Departs 20:2256 flights17.3%
- Departs 20:1552 flights16.1%
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 20:28 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and UA 2069 runs level with that at 70.2%. 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 2069 next to IAH to CVG
Every carrier on IAH to CVG combined arrived on time 75.3% of the time across 676 flights, so UA 2069 is 5 points behind it. United flew 625 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.7% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2069thin sample | 323 | 70.2% | 62 min | 1.24% | C |
| All United Airlines on IAH–CVG | 625 | 75.7% | 59 min | 0.96% | B+ |
| All carriers on IAH–CVG | 676 | 75.3% | 60 min | 1.04% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | 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 202554 flights64.2%
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights62.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights81.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights70.3%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2069 did best on Wednesday at 77.8% on time and worst on Friday at 60.9%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 2069 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 68% of the 5,917 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.
- 68%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
68% 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 5,917 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 68 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 5,917 delay minutes reported on UA 2069.
Cancellations sit at 1.24% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
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. 10.0% 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 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. 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 one other city pair in the data, including EWR to PDX (37), 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. 323 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, UA 2069 is one of the weaker ways to fly IAH to CVG: 5 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
- 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.