Flight number record
UA 2201
United Airlines · Washington to Chicago
- Route
- DCA → ORD
- Departs
- 10:30
- Flights
- 310
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2201, check with United Airlines.
UA 2201 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 14 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 310 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2201's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 142 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 304 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.94%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
3.9%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 310 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 2201 flies
UA 2201 is scheduled to leave Washington (DCA) at 10:30 local time and reach Chicago (ORD) at 11:46. That slot held for 298 of the 310 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 10:30298 flights96.1%
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 10:30 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and UA 2201 runs 8 points better at 91.8%. 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 2201 next to DCA to ORD
Every carrier on DCA to ORD combined arrived on time 74.3% of the time across 6,992 flights, so UA 2201 is 18 points ahead of it. United flew 3,392 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.6% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2201thin sample | 310 | 91.8% | 72 min | 1.94% | A |
| All United Airlines on DCA–ORD | 3,392 | 73.6% | 89 min | 2.21% | C |
| All carriers on DCA–ORD | 6,992 | 74.3% | 88 min | 3.40% | C− |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 2201 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2201 held fairly steady: 96.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 93.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 87.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights93.0%
- Jan–Mar 202687 flights87.2%
- Apr–Jun 202641 flights87.8%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2201 did best on Thursday at 97.8% on time and worst on Friday at 84.4%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 2201 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 82% of the 1,804 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.
- 82%National Airspace System
- 13%Carrier
- 5%Late-arriving aircraft
82% 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 1,484 minutes out of 1,804, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 1,804 delay minutes reported on UA 2201.
Cancellations sit at 1.94% 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 3.9% 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 612 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The same number turns up on nine other city pairs in the data, including ORD to MCO (49), ORD to BNA (38) and BNA to DEN (38), but none flew often enough under UA 2201 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DCA to ORD only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 310 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 2201
For a booking, read UA 2201 as 91.8% on time with 1.94% cancelled over 310 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.