Flight number record
UA 2225
United Airlines · Albany to Chicago
- Route
- ALB → ORD
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 346
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2225, check with United Airlines.
UA 2225 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 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 45 minutes. That rests on 346 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2225's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 78 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 342 completed flights
Avg delay
46 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.16%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 346 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 2225 flies
UA 2225 flies ALB to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 232 of 346 flights, with 06:10 (83 flights) next.
- Departs 06:00232 flights67.1%
- Departs 06:1083 flights24.0%
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 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 4 points worse at 85.1%. 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 2225 next to ALB to ORD
Every carrier on ALB to ORD combined arrived on time 77.4% of the time across 2,373 flights, so UA 2225 is 8 points ahead of it. United flew 787 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.6% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2225thin sample | 346 | 85.1% | 46 min | 1.16% | A |
| All United Airlines on ALB–ORD | 787 | 78.6% | 90 min | 1.40% | B |
| All carriers on ALB–ORD | 2,373 | 77.4% | 88 min | 2.61% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2225 quarter by quarter
UA 2225 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 93.5% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 73.5%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 69 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 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.0%
- Jan–Mar 202672 flights73.5%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights86.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.5%
Scale runs 65% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 2225 did best on Tuesday at 93.0% on time and worst on Thursday at 80.0%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2225 runs when it is late
UA 2225 often beats the schedule: 119 of 342 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 28 of the 51 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 9 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early119 flights34.8%
- Within 15 min172 flights50.3%
- 15–29 min late28 flights8.2%
- 30–59 min late14 flights4.1%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.5%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 342 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 26 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. In the other direction, 31 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 ORD.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2225
The latest arrival of the period was on 17 May 2026, 5 hours 7 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 national airspace system delay.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 17 May 2026 | 5 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 April 2026 | 2 hours 58 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 26 September 2025 | 2 hours 23 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 11 March 2026 | 2 hours 12 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 29 November 2025 | 1 hour 57 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why UA 2225 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 54% of the 2,336 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%National Airspace System
- 41%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 41%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 961 of the 2,336 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,336 delay minutes reported on UA 2225.
Cancellations sit at 1.16% 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 2.6% 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 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.
The same number turns up on eight other city pairs in the data, including ORD to PHX (103), ORD to IAH (71) and ORD to AUS (45), 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, UA 2225 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.1% on time and 1.16% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- ALB to ORD, every carrier and departure
- ORD to ALB, the return direction
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- United Airlines on-time record
- Every United Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.