Flight number record
UA 2235
United Airlines · New Orleans to Newark
- Route
- MSY → EWR
- Departs
- 19:39
- Flights
- 271
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2235, check with United Airlines.
UA 2235 sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 271 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
75.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 260 completed flights
Avg delay
107 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.95%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
14.2%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 271 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When UA 2235 flies
UA 2235 flies MSY to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:39, used on 41 of 271 flights, with 19:50 (41 flights) and 18:55 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 19:3941 flights15.1%
- Departs 19:5041 flights15.1%
- Departs 18:5535 flights12.9%
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 19:39 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and UA 2235 runs 7 points better at 75.0%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
UA 2235 next to MSY to EWR
Every carrier on MSY to EWR combined arrived on time 84.5% of the time across 1,213 flights, so UA 2235 is 10 points behind it. United flew 1,014 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.6% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2235thin sample | 271 | 75.0% | 107 min | 2.95% | B |
| All United Airlines on MSY–EWR | 1,014 | 84.6% | 88 min | 1.87% | B |
| All carriers on MSY–EWR | 1,213 | 84.5% | 88 min | 2.31% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 2235 quarter by quarter
UA 2235 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 91.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 54.3%, a swing of 37 points on roughly 68 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 202584 flights54.3%
- Oct–Dec 202552 flights69.4%
- Jan–Mar 202644 flights87.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.0%
Scale runs 45% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2235 did best on Tuesday at 82.9% on time and worst on Thursday at 61.5%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 2235 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 6,964 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.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%National Airspace System
- 22%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
44% 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 6,964 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 44 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 6,964 delay minutes reported on UA 2235.
Cancellations run at 2.95%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 14.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 1,167 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 two other city pairs in the data, including MCO to CLE (19) and IND to IAH (16), but none flew often enough under UA 2235 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MSY to EWR only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 271 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 2235
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on UA 2235: 2.95% of its 271 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs close to two hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- MSY to EWR, every carrier and departure
- EWR to MSY, the return direction
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans International (MSY) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 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
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.