Flight number record
UA 2235
United Airlines · New Orleans to Newark
- Route
- MSY → EWR
- Departs
- 19:39
- Flights
- 257
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2235, check with United Airlines.
UA 2235 lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 257 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
80.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 247 completed flights
Avg delay
115 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.72%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 257 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 70 of 257 flights, with 19:50 (41 flights) and 19:56 (28 flights) next.
- Departs 19:3970 flights27.2%
- Departs 19:5041 flights16.0%
- Departs 19:5628 flights10.9%
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 19:39 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and UA 2235 runs 12 points better at 80.2%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
UA 2235 next to MSY to EWR
Every carrier on MSY to EWR combined arrived on time 86.3% of the time across 1,218 flights, so UA 2235 is 6 points behind it. United flew 1,035 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.5% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2235thin sample | 257 | 80.2% | 115 min | 2.72% | B |
| All United Airlines on MSY–EWR | 1,035 | 86.5% | 90 min | 1.93% | A |
| All carriers on MSY–EWR | 1,218 | 86.3% | 88 min | 2.38% | A |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | 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 2026 at 60.0%, a swing of 31 points on roughly 64 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 202529 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202552 flights69.4%
- Jan–Mar 202644 flights87.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.0%
- Jul–Sep 202641 flights60.0%
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2235 did best on Tuesday at 90.9% on time and worst on Friday at 69.2%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2235 runs when it is late
UA 2235 often beats the schedule: 111 of 247 completed flights, 45%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 49 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 15 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early111 flights44.9%
- Within 15 min87 flights35.2%
- 15–29 min late10 flights4.0%
- 30–59 min late15 flights6.1%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights6.1%
- 2+ hours late9 flights3.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 247 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 59 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2235
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 August 2026, 16 hours 34 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2026 | 16 hours 34 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 August 2026 | 13 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 August 2026 | 13 hours 45 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 6 October 2025 | 4 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 May 2026 | 2 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 2235 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 5,643 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
42% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,643 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 5,643 delay minutes reported on UA 2235.
Cancellations run at 2.72%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 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
9.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including MCO to CLE (19), IND to IAH (16) and EWR to ORD (1), 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. 257 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: 2.72% of its 257 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.