Flight number record
UA 2260
United Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Houston
- Route
- DFW → IAH
- Departs
- 05:15
- Flights
- 320
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2260, check with United Airlines.
UA 2260 earns an A. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 18 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 320 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2260's record is 18 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 176 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
94.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 315 completed flights
Avg delay
85 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.56%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
1.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 320 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 2260 flies
UA 2260 flies DFW to IAH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:15, used on 214 of 320 flights, with 05:10 (76 flights) next.
- Departs 05:15214 flights66.9%
- Departs 05:1076 flights23.8%
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 05:15 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 2260 runs 6 points better at 94.9%. 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 2260 next to DFW to IAH
Every carrier on DFW to IAH combined arrived on time 70.7% of the time across 5,800 flights, so UA 2260 is 24 points ahead of it. United flew 2,457 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.1% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 16 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2260thin sample | 320 | 94.9% | 85 min | 1.56% | A |
| All United Airlines on DFW–IAH | 2,457 | 79.1% | 81 min | 1.71% | B |
| All carriers on DFW–IAH | 5,800 | 70.7% | 79 min | 2.43% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2260 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2260 held fairly steady: 96.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 93.3% in Jan–Mar 2026, 96.3% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 91.9% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 20256 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights96.7%
- Jan–Mar 202679 flights93.3%
- Apr–Jun 202682 flights96.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights91.9%
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2260 did best on Thursday at 100.0% on time and worst on Monday at 87.5%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2260 runs when it is late
UA 2260 often beats the schedule: 166 of 315 completed flights, 53%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 16 late arrivals split 7 under half an hour, 5 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 4 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early166 flights52.7%
- Within 15 min133 flights42.2%
- 15–29 min late7 flights2.2%
- 30–59 min late5 flights1.6%
- 1–2 hours late1 flights0.3%
- 2+ hours late3 flights1.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 315 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 14 of 315 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2260
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 January 2026, 7 hours 19 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 January 2026 | 7 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 November 2025 | 4 hours 27 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 7 December 2025 | 3 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 August 2026 | 1 hour 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 June 2026 | 44 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why UA 2260 runs late
Carrier accounts for 70% of the 1,353 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 70%Carrier
- 16%Extreme weather
- 14%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 16% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,353 delay minutes reported on UA 2260.
Cancellations sit at 1.56% 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 1.3% 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 same number turns up on seven other city pairs in the data, including IAH to TPA (91), IAH to SAT (17) and IAH to SDF (2), but none flew often enough under UA 2260 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DFW to IAH only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 320 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 2260
For a booking, read UA 2260 as 94.9% on time with 1.56% cancelled over 320 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.