Flight number record
UA 2280
United Airlines · Chicago to Orlando
- Route
- ORD → MCO
- Departs
- 07:10
- Flights
- 354
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2280, check with United Airlines.
UA 2280 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 50 minutes. That rests on 354 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2280's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 110 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 352 completed flights
Avg delay
51 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
2.3%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 354 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 2280 flies
UA 2280 flies ORD to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:10, used on 96 of 354 flights, with 07:20 (58 flights) and 07:23 (53 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:1096 flights27.1%
- Departs 07:2058 flights16.4%
- Departs 07:2353 flights15.0%
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 07:10 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 2280 runs level with that at 88.6%. 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 2280 next to ORD to MCO
Every carrier on ORD to MCO combined arrived on time 72.2% of the time across 6,347 flights, so UA 2280 is 16 points ahead of it. United flew 2,459 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.7% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2280thin sample | 354 | 88.6% | 51 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on ORD–MCO | 2,459 | 78.7% | 70 min | 0.61% | B+ |
| All carriers on ORD–MCO | 6,347 | 72.2% | 76 min | 1.56% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 2280 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2280 held fairly steady: 92.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 87.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 85.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 90.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202581 flights92.6%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights85.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.0%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2280 ranged from 84.6% on Saturday to 93.5% on Wednesday. With about 51 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why UA 2280 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 60% of the 2,031 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.
- 60%National Airspace System
- 25%Carrier
- 12%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%Extreme weather
60% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,214 minutes out of 2,031, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,031 delay minutes reported on UA 2280.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are 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 2.3% 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 1,005 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 MSN to ORD (1), but none flew often enough under UA 2280 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ORD to MCO only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 354 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 2280
For a booking, UA 2280 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 88.6% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to MCO, every carrier and departure
- MCO to ORD, the return direction
- United Airlines 2008 on the same route73.4%
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- Orlando International (MCO) 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
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.