Flight number record
UA 2289
United Airlines · Newark to Austin
- Route
- EWR → AUS
- Departs
- 15:10
- Flights
- 287
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2289, check with United Airlines.
UA 2289 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 287 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
77.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 278 completed flights
Avg delay
87 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.79%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 287 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When UA 2289 flies
UA 2289 flies EWR to AUS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:10, used on 79 of 287 flights, with 15:00 (59 flights) and 13:50 (32 flights) next.
- Departs 15:1079 flights27.5%
- Departs 15:0059 flights20.6%
- Departs 13:5032 flights11.1%
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 15:10 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and UA 2289 runs 5 points better at 77.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
UA 2289 next to EWR to AUS
Every carrier on EWR to AUS combined arrived on time 78.4% of the time across 2,056 flights, so UA 2289 is about level with it. United flew 1,735 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.8% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2289thin sample | 287 | 77.3% | 87 min | 2.79% | B |
| All United Airlines on EWR–AUS | 1,735 | 79.8% | 76 min | 2.48% | B |
| All carriers on EWR–AUS | 2,056 | 78.4% | 76 min | 3.11% | B− |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2289 quarter by quarter
UA 2289 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 86.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 66.0%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 72 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 202521 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202564 flights73.8%
- Jan–Mar 202682 flights86.1%
- Apr–Jun 202664 flights78.1%
- Jul–Sep 202656 flights66.0%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2289 did best on Tuesday at 88.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 62.8%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 26 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2289 runs when it is late
UA 2289 often beats the schedule: 80 of 278 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 63 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early80 flights28.8%
- Within 15 min135 flights48.6%
- 15–29 min late21 flights7.6%
- 30–59 min late18 flights6.5%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights3.2%
- 2+ hours late15 flights5.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 278 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
13 of 58 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. In the other direction, 18 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 AUS.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2289
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 November 2025, 8 hours 58 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across November, August, December and July, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 November 2025 | 8 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 August 2026 | 7 hours 51 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 14 December 2025 | 6 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 July 2026 | 4 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 July 2026 | 3 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 2289 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 5,455 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 23%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
42% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,455 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 26 to one. The split is drawn from 5,455 delay minutes reported on UA 2289.
Cancellations run at 2.79%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 1,504 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.
The same number turns up on six other city pairs in the data, including RDU to EWR (73), ATL to EWR (68) and AUS to IAH (53), but none flew often enough under UA 2289 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to EWR to AUS only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 287 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 2289
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on UA 2289: 2.79% of its 287 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to AUS, every carrier and departure
- AUS to EWR, the return direction
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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.