Flight number record

UA 2287

United Airlines · Cincinnati to Chicago

Route: CVG → ORD
Departs: 07:00
Flights: 285
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2287, check with United Airlines.

UA 2287 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 285 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.

On time

77.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 279 completed flights

Avg delay

56 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.11%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 285 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.

Schedule

When UA 2287 flies

UA 2287 is scheduled to leave Cincinnati (CVG) at 07:00 local time and reach Chicago (ORD) at 07:35. That slot held for 232 of the 285 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.

Departs 07:00232 flights81.4%
Departs 07:1030 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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 2287 runs 12 points worse at 77.4%. 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 2287 next to CVG to ORD

Every carrier on CVG to ORD combined arrived on time 70.2% of the time across 4,630 flights, so UA 2287 is 7 points ahead of it. United flew 946 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 68.5% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 2 points.

UA 2287 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2287thin sample	285	77.4%	56 min	2.11%	B
All United Airlines on CVG–ORD	946	68.5%	74 min	2.43%	C
All carriers on CVG–ORD	4,630	70.2%	86 min	3.43%	C−
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 2287 quarter by quarter

UA 2287 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 85.6% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 68.5%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 71 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 202592 flights85.6%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights68.5%
Jan–Mar 202668 flights74.2%
Apr–Jun 202634 flights85.3%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2287 did best on Wednesday at 90.7% on time and worst on Friday at 65.8%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 2287 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 76% of the 3,554 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.

National Airspace System
76%
Carrier
20%
Extreme weather
5%

76% 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 2,688 minutes out of 3,554, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,554 delay minutes reported on UA 2287.

Cancellations sit at 2.11% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The same number turns up on five other city pairs in the data, including ORD to SRQ (124), ORD to LGA (50) and ORD to SAT (37), but none flew often enough under UA 2287 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to CVG to ORD only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 285 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 2287

For a booking, read UA 2287 as 77.4% on time with 2.11% cancelled over 285 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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