Flight number record

UA 2206

United Airlines · Washington to Orlando

Route: IAD → MCO
Departs: 12:35
Flights: 364
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 364 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 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 85 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 360 completed flights

Avg delay

74 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.27%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

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 129 of 364 flights, with 12:45 (87 flights) and 12:40 (83 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 12:35129 flights35.4%
Departs 12:4587 flights23.9%
Departs 12:4083 flights22.8%

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 12:35 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and UA 2206 runs 7 points better at 86.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

UA 2206 next to IAD to MCO

Every carrier on IAD to MCO combined arrived on time 81.7% of the time across 2,176 flights, so UA 2206 is 4 points ahead of it. United flew 1,897 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.0% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 7 points.

UA 2206 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2206thin sample	364	86.1%	74 min	0.27%	A+
All United Airlines on IAD–MCO	1,897	83.0%	70 min	0.58%	B+
All carriers on IAD–MCO	2,176	81.7%	71 min	0.87%	B+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	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 91 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 flights84.8%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights80.2%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.1%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2206 ranged from 80.8% on Saturday to 90.4% on Wednesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

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 3,688 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
40%
National Airspace System
38%
Carrier
23%

40% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 3,688 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 40 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 3,688 delay minutes reported on UA 2206.

Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, below the national 1.81% 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

6.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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. 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 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. 364 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: 86.1% on time and 0.27% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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