Flight number record

UA 2282

United Airlines · Los Angeles to Washington

Route: LAX → IAD
Departs: 22:35
Flights: 277
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2282, check with United Airlines.

UA 2282 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 35 minutes. That rests on 277 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 2282's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 115 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 276 completed flights

Avg delay

34 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.36%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

1.4%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 277 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 2282 flies

UA 2282 flies LAX to IAD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:35, used on 52 of 277 flights, with 23:30 (47 flights) and 22:57 (36 flights) next.

Departs 22:3552 flights18.8%
Departs 23:3047 flights17.0%
Departs 22:5736 flights13.0%

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 22:35 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and UA 2282 runs 19 points better at 88.8%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

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Against the route

UA 2282 next to LAX to IAD

Every carrier on LAX to IAD combined arrived on time 87.5% of the time across 2,461 flights, so UA 2282 is about level with it. United flew 2,341 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 88.0% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 10 points.

UA 2282 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2282thin sample	277	88.8%	34 min	0.36%	A+
All United Airlines on LAX–IAD	2,341	88.0%	54 min	0.56%	A+
All carriers on LAX–IAD	2,461	87.5%	56 min	0.53%	A+
United Airlines, whole network	830,825	78.8%	73 min	1.02%	B

Across the year

UA 2282 quarter by quarter

UA 2282 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 95.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 80.5%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 69 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Jul–Sep 202528 flights—
Oct–Dec 202588 flights83.0%
Jan–Mar 202639 flights89.5%
Apr–Jun 202681 flights95.1%
Jul–Sep 202641 flights80.5%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2282 did best on Tuesday at 92.9% on time and worst on Saturday at 77.4%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late UA 2282 runs when it is late

UA 2282 often beats the schedule: 120 of 276 completed flights, 43%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 21 of the 31 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 4 reached an hour or more.

15+ min early120 flights43.5%
Within 15 min125 flights45.3%
15–29 min late21 flights7.6%
30–59 min late6 flights2.2%
1–2 hours late3 flights1.1%
2+ hours late1 flights0.4%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 276 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

A late pushback is often recovered here: of 37 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 13 still arrived on time. 7 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for UA 2282

The latest arrival of the period was on 29 April 2026, 2 hours 8 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of UA 2282 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
29 April 2026	2 hours 8 minutes	Carrier
20 July 2026	1 hour 16 minutes	Carrier
3 January 2026	1 hour 7 minutes	Carrier
18 July 2026	1 hour 5 minutes	National Airspace System
17 December 2025	43 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why UA 2282 runs late

Carrier accounts for 57% of the 1,049 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
57%
National Airspace System
24%
Late-arriving aircraft
19%

The largest share of delay minutes, 57%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 595 of the 1,049 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,049 delay minutes reported on UA 2282.

Cancellations are rare at 0.36%, 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 1.4% 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.

At 2,288 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.

UA 2282 is not only a LAX to IAD flight. It also flew LAS to LAX (274 flights, 74.6% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 277 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.

Other routes flown as UA 2282
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
LAS to LAXthin sample	274	74.6%	56 min	0.73%	C+

What to do with this

Booking UA 2282

For a booking, UA 2282 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 88.8% on time and 0.36% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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