Flight number record
UA 2201
United Airlines · Washington to Chicago
- Route
- DCA → ORD
- Departs
- 10:30
- Flights
- 288
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 288 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2201's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 135 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 282 completed flights
Avg delay
69 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.08%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 288 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 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 281 of the 288 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 10:30281 flights97.6%
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 10:30 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and UA 2201 runs 7 points better at 90.8%. 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 2201 next to DCA to ORD
Every carrier on DCA to ORD combined arrived on time 73.8% of the time across 7,112 flights, so UA 2201 is 17 points ahead of it. United flew 3,411 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.8% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2201thin sample | 288 | 90.8% | 69 min | 2.08% | A |
| All United Airlines on DCA–ORD | 3,411 | 73.8% | 87 min | 2.52% | C |
| All carriers on DCA–ORD | 7,112 | 73.8% | 86 min | 3.56% | C− |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2201 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2201 held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 93.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.2% in Jan–Mar 2026, 87.8% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 94.9% in Jul–Sep 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 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights93.0%
- Jan–Mar 202687 flights87.2%
- Apr–Jun 202641 flights87.8%
- Jul–Sep 202640 flights94.9%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 2201 did best on Thursday at 97.6% on time and worst on Friday at 82.9%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2201 runs when it is late
UA 2201 often beats the schedule: 104 of 282 completed flights, 37%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 26 late arrivals split 9 under half an hour, 6 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early104 flights36.9%
- Within 15 min152 flights53.9%
- 15–29 min late9 flights3.2%
- 30–59 min late6 flights2.1%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.8%
- 2+ hours late6 flights2.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 282 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 17 of 282 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2201
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 March 2026, 4 hours 22 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 March 2026 | 4 hours 22 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 November 2025 | 2 hours 52 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 9 November 2025 | 2 hours 36 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 14 January 2026 | 2 hours 26 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 13 September 2025 | 2 hours 8 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why UA 2201 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 82% of the 1,803 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 82%National Airspace System
- 14%Carrier
- 3%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 1,487 minutes out of 1,803, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 1,803 delay minutes reported on UA 2201.
Cancellations sit at 2.08% 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 3.9% 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 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.
The same number turns up on seven other city pairs in the data, including BNA to DEN (59), ORD to BNA (38) and ORD to PHX (31), 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. 288 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 90.8% on time with 2.08% cancelled over 288 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
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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.