Flight number record

UA 219

United Airlines · Chicago to Honolulu

Route: ORD → HNL
Departs: 09:30
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 219, check with United Airlines.

UA 219 lands a B+, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

On time

76.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 363 completed flights

Avg delay

64 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.55%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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.

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 288 of 365 flights, with 09:35 (47 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 09:30288 flights78.9%
Departs 09:3547 flights12.9%

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 09:30 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and UA 219 runs 8 points worse at 76.3%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

UA 219 next to ORD to HNL

Every carrier on ORD to HNL combined arrived on time 71.3% of the time across 540 flights, so UA 219 is 5 points ahead of it. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 3 points.

UA 219 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 219	365	76.3%	64 min	0.55%	B+
All United Airlines on ORD–HNL	365	76.3%	64 min	0.55%	B+
All carriers on ORD–HNL	540	71.3%	72 min	0.37%	C+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 219 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter UA 219 held fairly steady: 72.5% in Jul–Sep 2025, 78.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 77.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 76.9% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights72.5%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights78.3%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.9%

Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 219 did best on Tuesday at 92.5% on time and worst on Friday at 68.6%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 219 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 58% of the 5,526 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.

Carrier
58%
National Airspace System
20%
Late-arriving aircraft
17%
Extreme weather
5%

The largest share of delay minutes, 58%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 3,226 of the 5,526 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,526 delay minutes reported on UA 219.

Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, below the national 1.81% 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

6.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 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 76.3% on time with 0.55% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

Where to go next

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.

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