Flight number record

UA 2196

United Airlines · Austin to Houston

Route: AUS → IAH
Departs: 09:35
Flights: 334
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2196, check with United Airlines.

UA 2196 sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about 45 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 334 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.

On time

75.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 329 completed flights

Avg delay

44 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.50%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 334 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.

Schedule

When UA 2196 flies

UA 2196 flies AUS to IAH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:35, used on 160 of 334 flights, with 09:45 (75 flights) and 09:37 (49 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 09:35160 flights47.9%
Departs 09:4575 flights22.5%
Departs 09:3749 flights14.7%

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 09:35 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and UA 2196 runs 9 points worse at 75.4%. 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 2196 next to AUS to IAH

Every carrier on AUS to IAH combined arrived on time 75.6% of the time across 2,674 flights, so UA 2196 is about level with it. United flew 2,608 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.5% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 4 points.

UA 2196 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2196thin sample	334	75.4%	44 min	1.50%	B
All United Airlines on AUS–IAH	2,608	75.5%	61 min	1.27%	B
All carriers on AUS–IAH	2,674	75.6%	62 min	1.23%	B
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 2196 quarter by quarter

UA 2196 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 87.7% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 65.9%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 84 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 202592 flights78.0%
Oct–Dec 202586 flights72.9%
Jan–Mar 202668 flights87.7%
Apr–Jun 202688 flights65.9%

Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2196 did best on Saturday at 87.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 66.7%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 2196 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 59% of the 3,584 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.

National Airspace System
59%
Carrier
25%
Late-arriving aircraft
16%

59% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 2,127 minutes out of 3,584, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,584 delay minutes reported on UA 2196.

Cancellations sit at 1.50% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including IAH to PHL (150), IAH to RDU (26) and XNA to IAH (1), but none flew often enough under UA 2196 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to AUS to IAH only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 334 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 2196

For a booking, read UA 2196 as 75.4% on time with 1.50% cancelled over 334 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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