Flight number record
UA 219
United Airlines · Chicago to Honolulu
- Route
- ORD → HNL
- Departs
- 09:30
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 219, check with United Airlines.
UA 219 lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
77.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 364 completed flights
Avg delay
73 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.27%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 219 flies
UA 219 flies ORD to HNL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:30, used on 282 of 365 flights, with 09:35 (47 flights) next.
- Departs 09:30282 flights77.3%
- Departs 09:3547 flights12.9%
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 09:30 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and UA 219 runs 6 points worse at 77.7%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
UA 219 next to ORD to HNL
Every carrier on ORD to HNL combined arrived on time 72.3% of the time across 540 flights, so UA 219 is 5 points ahead of it. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 219 | 365 | 77.7% | 73 min | 0.27% | B+ |
| All United Airlines on ORD–HNL | 365 | 77.7% | 73 min | 0.27% | B+ |
| All carriers on ORD–HNL | 540 | 72.3% | 77 min | 0.19% | C+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 219 quarter by quarter
UA 219 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 82.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 70.0%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 73 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 flights70.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights78.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights82.3%
Scale runs 60% to 90%.
By weekday, UA 219 did best on Tuesday at 90.4% on time and worst on Friday at 68.6%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 219 runs when it is late
UA 219 often beats the schedule: 134 of 364 completed flights, 37%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 81 late arrivals split 37 under half an hour, 20 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early134 flights36.8%
- Within 15 min149 flights40.9%
- 15–29 min late37 flights10.2%
- 30–59 min late20 flights5.5%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights3.0%
- 2+ hours late13 flights3.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 364 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 90 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 34 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 25 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 HNL.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 219
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 January 2026, 9 hours 26 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 January 2026 | 9 hours 26 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 August 2026 | 6 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 6 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 September 2025 | 6 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 July 2026 | 4 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 219 runs late
Carrier accounts for 58% of the 5,905 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 58%Carrier
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 58%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,447 of the 5,905 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,905 delay minutes reported on UA 219.
Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.6% 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.
At 4,243 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
Every one of the 365 flights under UA 219 in the data flew ORD to HNL. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 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 219
For a booking, read UA 219 as 77.7% on time with 0.27% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) delay statistics
- United Airlines on-time record
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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.