Flight number record

UA 2242

United Airlines · Houston to Salt Lake City

Route: IAH → SLC
Departs: 09:45
Flights: 339
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2242, check with United Airlines.

UA 2242 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 about 50 minutes. That rests on 339 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 2242's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 86 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 334 completed flights

Avg delay

50 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.88%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 339 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 2242 flies

UA 2242 flies IAH to SLC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:45, used on 70 of 339 flights, with 09:49 (61 flights) and 09:54 (61 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 09:4570 flights20.6%
Departs 09:4961 flights18.0%
Departs 09:5461 flights18.0%

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 09:45 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and UA 2242 runs 2 points better at 86.2%. 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 2242 next to IAH to SLC

Every carrier on IAH to SLC combined arrived on time 82.6% of the time across 1,957 flights, so UA 2242 is 4 points ahead of it. United flew 879 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.9% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 7 points.

UA 2242 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2242thin sample	339	86.2%	50 min	0.88%	A+
All United Airlines on IAH–SLC	879	82.9%	64 min	0.68%	B+
All carriers on IAH–SLC	1,957	82.6%	79 min	0.51%	B+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 2242 quarter by quarter

UA 2242 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 91.1% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 81.0%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 85 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 flights91.1%
Oct–Dec 202586 flights82.4%
Jan–Mar 202682 flights90.0%
Apr–Jun 202679 flights81.0%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2242 ranged from 82.2% on Monday to 89.4% on Saturday. With about 48 flights behind each day, a spread of 7 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why UA 2242 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 2,304 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
37%
Late-arriving aircraft
30%
National Airspace System
30%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, 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 863 of the 2,304 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,304 delay minutes reported on UA 2242.

Cancellations are rare at 0.88%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.4% 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 1,195 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 four other city pairs in the data, including SLC to EWR (19), ORD to LAS (6) and IAH to PSP (3), but none flew often enough under UA 2242 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IAH to SLC only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 339 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 2242

For a booking, UA 2242 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 86.2% on time and 0.88% 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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