Flight number record
UA 2162
United Airlines · Fort Lauderdale to Houston
- Route
- FLL → IAH
- Departs
- 13:10
- Flights
- 286
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2162, check with United Airlines.
UA 2162 lands a B+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 286 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2162's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 63 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 286 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 286 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 2162 flies
UA 2162 flies FLL to IAH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:10, used on 111 of 286 flights, with 13:30 (52 flights) and 13:25 (42 flights) next.
- Departs 13:10111 flights38.8%
- Departs 13:3052 flights18.2%
- Departs 13:2542 flights14.7%
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 13:10 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and UA 2162 runs 5 points better at 83.6%. 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 2162 next to FLL to IAH
Every carrier on FLL to IAH combined arrived on time 81.5% of the time across 2,919 flights, so UA 2162 is 2 points ahead of it. United flew 1,894 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 88.3% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2162thin sample | 286 | 83.6% | 79 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| All United Airlines on FLL–IAH | 1,894 | 88.3% | 78 min | 0.63% | A+ |
| All carriers on FLL–IAH | 2,919 | 81.5% | 75 min | 1.30% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2162 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2162 held fairly steady: 85.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.2% in Jan–Mar 2026, 85.7% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 81.4% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Oct–Dec 202567 flights85.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.2%
- Apr–Jun 202670 flights85.7%
- Jul–Sep 202659 flights81.4%
Scale runs 75% to 90%.
By weekday, UA 2162 did best on Thursday at 92.5% on time and worst on Saturday at 72.5%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2162 runs when it is late
UA 2162 often beats the schedule: 149 of 286 completed flights, 52%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 47 late arrivals split 12 under half an hour, 14 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early149 flights52.1%
- Within 15 min90 flights31.5%
- 15–29 min late12 flights4.2%
- 30–59 min late14 flights4.9%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights4.5%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 286 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 54 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 17 still arrived on time. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2162
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 November 2025, 5 hours 41 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across November, March and July, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 November 2025 | 5 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 March 2026 | 4 hours 22 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 July 2026 | 3 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 March 2026 | 3 hours 12 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 29 July 2026 | 2 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why UA 2162 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 3,695 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%National Airspace System
- 27%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
39% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,695 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 39 to one. The split is drawn from 3,695 delay minutes reported on UA 2162.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 966 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 three other city pairs in the data, including IAH to ATL (76), ORD to MCI (21) and IAH to PHX (19), but none flew often enough under UA 2162 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to FLL to IAH only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 286 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 2162
For a booking, read UA 2162 as 83.6% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 286 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- FLL to IAH, every carrier and departure
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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.