Flight number record

UA 2260

United Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Houston

Route: DFW → IAH
Departs: 05:15
Flights: 258
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 258 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 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 181 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

95.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 253 completed flights

Avg delay

104 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.94%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

1.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 258 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

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 193 of 258 flights, with 05:10 (35 flights) and 05:19 (27 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 05:15193 flights74.8%
Departs 05:1035 flights13.6%
Departs 05:1927 flights10.5%

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 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 95.7%. 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 2260 next to DFW to IAH

Every carrier on DFW to IAH combined arrived on time 69.8% of the time across 5,780 flights, so UA 2260 is 26 points ahead of it. United flew 2,414 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.9% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 17 points.

UA 2260 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2260thin sample	258	95.7%	104 min	1.94%	A
All United Airlines on DFW–IAH	2,414	76.9%	86 min	1.99%	B
All carriers on DFW–IAH	5,780	69.8%	81 min	2.92%	C
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	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 and 96.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 3 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%

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 84.6%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 2260 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 65% of the 1,147 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.

Carrier
65%
Extreme weather
18%
National Airspace System
17%

Extreme weather accounts for 18% 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 3.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,147 delay minutes reported on UA 2260.

Cancellations sit at 1.94% against a national 1.81%, 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 1.2% 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 same number turns up on eight other city pairs in the data, including IAH to TPA (145), 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. 258 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 95.7% on time with 1.94% cancelled over 258 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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