Flight number record

UA 2289

United Airlines · Newark to Austin

Route: EWR → AUS
Departs: 15:00
Flights: 285
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2289, check with United Airlines.

UA 2289 sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 285 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

On time

75.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 278 completed flights

Avg delay

84 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.11%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

8.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 285 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When UA 2289 flies

UA 2289 flies EWR to AUS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:00, used on 59 of 285 flights, with 15:10 (44 flights) and 14:57 (38 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:0059 flights20.7%
Departs 15:1044 flights15.4%
Departs 14:5738 flights13.3%

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 15:00 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and UA 2289 runs 4 points better at 75.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

UA 2289 next to EWR to AUS

Every carrier on EWR to AUS combined arrived on time 78.2% of the time across 2,107 flights, so UA 2289 is 2 points behind it. United flew 1,739 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.6% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 3 points.

UA 2289 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2289thin sample	285	75.9%	84 min	2.11%	B
All United Airlines on EWR–AUS	1,739	79.6%	77 min	1.73%	B
All carriers on EWR–AUS	2,107	78.2%	78 min	2.42%	B
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	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 2025 at 64.9%, a swing of 21 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 202575 flights64.9%
Oct–Dec 202564 flights73.8%
Jan–Mar 202682 flights86.1%
Apr–Jun 202664 flights78.1%

Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2289 did best on Friday at 88.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 59.5%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 29 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 2289 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 5,629 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
46%
Carrier
24%
National Airspace System
18%
Extreme weather
13%

Extreme weather accounts for 13% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,629 delay minutes reported on UA 2289.

Cancellations sit at 2.11% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.35%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

8.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. 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 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 (115), AUS to IAH (53) and ATL to EWR (50), 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. 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 2289

For a booking, read UA 2289 as 75.9% 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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