Flight number record
UA 2196
United Airlines · Austin to Houston
- Route
- AUS → IAH
- Departs
- 09:35
- Flights
- 334
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2196, check with United Airlines.
UA 2196 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 40 minutes on average. That rests on 334 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
76.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 330 completed flights
Avg delay
40 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.20%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 334 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 3 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 2196 flies
UA 2196 flies AUS to IAH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:35, used on 188 of 334 flights, with 09:45 (75 flights) next.
- Departs 09:35188 flights56.3%
- Departs 09:4575 flights22.5%
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 09:35 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and UA 2196 runs 7 points worse at 76.7%. 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 2196 next to AUS to IAH
Every carrier on AUS to IAH combined arrived on time 77.2% of the time across 2,670 flights, so UA 2196 is about level with it. United flew 2,643 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.0% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2196thin sample | 334 | 76.7% | 40 min | 1.20% | B |
| All United Airlines on AUS–IAH | 2,643 | 77.0% | 58 min | 1.02% | B |
| All carriers on AUS–IAH | 2,670 | 77.2% | 58 min | 1.01% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | 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 67 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 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202586 flights72.9%
- Jan–Mar 202668 flights87.7%
- Apr–Jun 202688 flights65.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights83.9%
Scale runs 55% to 95%.
By weekday, UA 2196 did best on Tuesday at 85.1% on time and worst on Sunday at 66.7%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2196 runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 55 of the 77 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 9 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early62 flights18.8%
- Within 15 min191 flights57.9%
- 15–29 min late55 flights16.7%
- 30–59 min late13 flights3.9%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights0.9%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 330 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 26 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 3 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 54 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 IAH.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2196
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 April 2026, 4 hours 13 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as national airspace system delay.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2026 | 4 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 June 2026 | 3 hours 19 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 16 March 2026 | 3 hours 17 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 3 May 2026 | 2 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 May 2026 | 2 hours 27 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why UA 2196 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 65% of the 3,076 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 65%National Airspace System
- 18%Carrier
- 18%Late-arriving aircraft
65% 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 1,986 minutes out of 3,076, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,076 delay minutes reported on UA 2196.
Cancellations sit at 1.20% against a national 1.89%, 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 2.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 (76) 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 76.7% on time with 1.20% cancelled over 334 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.