Flight number record
UA 2225
United Airlines · Albany to Chicago
- Route
- ALB → ORD
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 346
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2225, check with United Airlines.
UA 2225 lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 346 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2225's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 63 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 341 completed flights
Avg delay
51 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.45%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
3.8%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 346 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 2225 flies
UA 2225 flies ALB to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 273 of 346 flights, with 06:10 (42 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:00273 flights78.9%
- Departs 06:1042 flights12.1%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 2225 runs 5 points worse at 83.9%. 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 2225 next to ALB to ORD
Every carrier on ALB to ORD combined arrived on time 76.6% of the time across 2,303 flights, so UA 2225 is 7 points ahead of it. United flew 756 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.4% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2225thin sample | 346 | 83.9% | 51 min | 1.45% | B |
| All United Airlines on ALB–ORD | 756 | 76.4% | 95 min | 1.85% | B |
| All carriers on ALB–ORD | 2,303 | 76.6% | 84 min | 2.65% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 2225 quarter by quarter
UA 2225 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 87.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 73.5%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 87 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 flights85.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.0%
- Jan–Mar 202672 flights73.5%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights86.7%
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2225 did best on Tuesday at 93.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 78.4%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 2225 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 49% of the 2,828 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.
- 49%National Airspace System
- 46%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 46%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,306 of the 2,828 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,828 delay minutes reported on UA 2225.
Cancellations sit at 1.45% 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 3.8% 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 723 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 PHX (90), ORD to IAH (71) and ORD to AUS (58), but none flew often enough under UA 2225 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ALB to ORD only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 346 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 2225
For a booking, read UA 2225 as 83.9% on time with 1.45% cancelled over 346 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.