Flight number record
UA 2245
United Airlines · Houston to Orlando
- Route
- IAH → MCO
- Departs
- 07:20
- Flights
- 360
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2245, check with United Airlines.
UA 2245 earns an A+. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 16 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 360 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2245's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 163 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
93.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights
Avg delay
48 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.28%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
1.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 360 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 2245 flies
UA 2245 is scheduled to leave Houston (IAH) at 07:20 local time and reach Orlando (MCO) at 10:51. That slot held for 324 of the 360 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 07:20324 flights90.0%
- Departs 07:2136 flights10.0%
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 07:20 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 2245 runs 5 points better at 93.9%. 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 2245 next to IAH to MCO
Every carrier on IAH to MCO combined arrived on time 81.6% of the time across 3,669 flights, so UA 2245 is 12 points ahead of it. United flew 2,471 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.1% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 15 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2245thin sample | 360 | 93.9% | 48 min | 0.28% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on IAH–MCO | 2,471 | 85.1% | 71 min | 0.65% | A+ |
| All carriers on IAH–MCO | 3,669 | 81.6% | 82 min | 1.01% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 2245 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2245 held fairly steady: 92.4% in Jul–Sep 2025, 94.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 96.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 92.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights92.4%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights94.5%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights96.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.3%
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2245 ranged from 90.2% on Wednesday to 98.0% on Monday. With about 51 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why UA 2245 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 1,052 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.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 22%National Airspace System
46% 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 1,052 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 46 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 1,052 delay minutes reported on UA 2245.
Cancellations are rare at 0.28%, 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 1.4% 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 854 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 one other city pair in the data, including MCO to EWR (60), but none flew often enough under UA 2245 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IAH to MCO only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 360 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 2245
For a booking, UA 2245 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 93.9% on time and 0.28% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- IAH to MCO, every carrier and departure
- MCO to IAH, the return direction
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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.