Flight number record

UA 2194

United Airlines · Houston to New Orleans

Route: IAH → MSY
Departs: 16:30
Flights: 250
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2194, check with United Airlines.

UA 2194 earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 250 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 2194's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 83 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 249 completed flights

Avg delay

65 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.40%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 250 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Schedule

When UA 2194 flies

UA 2194 flies IAH to MSY without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:30, used on 112 of 250 flights, with 16:58 (57 flights) and 16:35 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 16:30112 flights44.8%
Departs 16:5857 flights22.8%
Departs 16:3532 flights12.8%

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 16:30 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and UA 2194 runs 14 points better at 85.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

UA 2194 next to IAH to MSY

Every carrier on IAH to MSY combined arrived on time 82.9% of the time across 2,962 flights, so UA 2194 is 3 points ahead of it. United flew 2,783 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.9% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 7 points.

UA 2194 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2194thin sample	250	85.9%	65 min	0.40%	A+
All United Airlines on IAH–MSY	2,783	82.9%	63 min	0.25%	B+
All carriers on IAH–MSY	2,962	82.9%	65 min	0.30%	B+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 2194 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter UA 2194 held fairly steady: 85.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 89.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 82.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202528 flights—
Oct–Dec 202584 flights85.7%
Jan–Mar 202688 flights89.7%
Apr–Jun 202650 flights82.0%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2194 did best on Friday at 97.3% on time and worst on Sunday at 65.8%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 32 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 2194 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 2,257 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
41%
Carrier
34%
National Airspace System
21%
Extreme weather
4%

41% 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 2,257 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 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 2,257 delay minutes reported on UA 2194.

Cancellations are rare at 0.40%, 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

6.8% 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.

The same number turns up on eleven other city pairs in the data, including SFO to IAH (99), MSY to SFO (83) and LAX to SFO (80), but none flew often enough under UA 2194 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IAH to MSY only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 250 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 2194

For a booking, UA 2194 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.9% on time and 0.40% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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