Flight number record
UA 2206
United Airlines · Washington to Orlando
- Route
- IAD → MCO
- Departs
- 12:35
- Flights
- 358
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2206, check with United Airlines.
UA 2206 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 9 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 358 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2206's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 90 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 351 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.84%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 358 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 2206 flies
UA 2206 flies IAD to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:35, used on 171 of 358 flights, with 12:45 (87 flights) and 12:40 (42 flights) next.
- Departs 12:35171 flights47.8%
- Departs 12:4587 flights24.3%
- Departs 12:4042 flights11.7%
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 12:35 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and UA 2206 runs 8 points better at 86.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
UA 2206 next to IAD to MCO
Every carrier on IAD to MCO combined arrived on time 80.7% of the time across 2,180 flights, so UA 2206 is 6 points ahead of it. United flew 1,874 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.5% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2206thin sample | 358 | 86.3% | 76 min | 0.84% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on IAD–MCO | 1,874 | 82.5% | 69 min | 0.91% | B+ |
| All carriers on IAD–MCO | 2,180 | 80.7% | 76 min | 1.10% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2206 quarter by quarter
UA 2206 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 92.1% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 80.2%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 72 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 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights80.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.1%
- Jul–Sep 202656 flights83.0%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 2206 ranged from 83.7% on Sunday to 89.4% on Tuesday. With about 51 flights behind each day, a spread of 6 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2206 runs when it is late
UA 2206 often beats the schedule: 122 of 351 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 48 late arrivals split 18 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 22 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early122 flights34.8%
- Within 15 min181 flights51.6%
- 15–29 min late18 flights5.1%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.3%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights4.0%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 351 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 41 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 29% of them. In the other direction, 19 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 MCO.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2206
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 July 2026, 5 hours 4 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 a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 July 2026 | 5 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 October 2025 | 4 hours 29 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 February 2026 | 4 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 April 2026 | 3 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 September 2025 | 3 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 2206 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 3,647 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 28%National Airspace System
41% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,647 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 41 to one. The split is drawn from 3,647 delay minutes reported on UA 2206.
Cancellations are rare at 0.84%, below the national 1.89% 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
6.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 758 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 one other city pair in the data, including MCO to ORD (3), but none flew often enough under UA 2206 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IAD to MCO only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 358 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 2206
For a booking, UA 2206 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 86.3% on time and 0.84% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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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.