Flight number record
UA 2280
United Airlines · Chicago to Orlando
- Route
- ORD → MCO
- Departs
- 07:20
- Flights
- 357
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 357 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 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 108 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights
Avg delay
52 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.28%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 357 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When UA 2280 flies
UA 2280 flies ORD to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:20, used on 99 of 357 flights, with 07:15 (58 flights) and 07:23 (53 flights) next.
- Departs 07:2099 flights27.7%
- Departs 07:1558 flights16.2%
- Departs 07:2353 flights14.8%
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 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 2280 runs level with that at 88.1%. 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 2280 next to ORD to MCO
Every carrier on ORD to MCO combined arrived on time 72.8% of the time across 6,220 flights, so UA 2280 is 15 points ahead of it. United flew 2,537 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.0% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2280thin sample | 357 | 88.1% | 52 min | 0.28% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on ORD–MCO | 2,537 | 79.0% | 70 min | 0.71% | B+ |
| All carriers on ORD–MCO | 6,220 | 72.8% | 75 min | 1.61% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2280 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2280 held fairly steady: 87.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 85.4% in Jan–Mar 2026, 90.0% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 90.2% 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 202522 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights85.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights90.2%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2280 ranged from 82.7% on Saturday to 93.8% on Wednesday. With about 51 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2280 runs when it is late
UA 2280 often beats the schedule: 132 of 354 completed flights, 37%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 42 late arrivals split 19 under half an hour, 14 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 9 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early132 flights37.3%
- Within 15 min180 flights50.8%
- 15–29 min late19 flights5.4%
- 30–59 min late14 flights4.0%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.7%
- 2+ hours late3 flights0.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 354 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 30 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 10 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 22 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at MCO.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2280
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 May 2026, 6 hours 25 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The five worst days are spread across May, August, January, December and September, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 May 2026 | 6 hours 25 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 23 August 2026 | 2 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 January 2026 | 2 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 December 2025 | 1 hour 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 September 2025 | 1 hour 43 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why UA 2280 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 62% of the 2,168 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 62%National Airspace System
- 23%Carrier
- 12%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%Extreme weather
62% 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 1,348 minutes out of 2,168, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,168 delay minutes reported on UA 2280.
Cancellations are rare at 0.28%, below the national 1.89% 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 2.5% 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 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.
Every one of the 357 flights under UA 2280 in the data flew ORD to MCO. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 357 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: 88.1% on time and 0.28% 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 route75.3%
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.