Flight number record
UA 2290
United Airlines · Chicago to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- ORD → DFW
- Departs
- 12:45
- Flights
- 327
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2290, check with United Airlines.
UA 2290 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 327 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
74.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 323 completed flights
Avg delay
78 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.92%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
12.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 327 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When UA 2290 flies
UA 2290 flies ORD to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:45, used on 117 of 327 flights, with 13:05 (80 flights) next.
- Departs 12:45117 flights35.8%
- Departs 13:0580 flights24.5%
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 12:45 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and UA 2290 runs 4 points worse at 74.6%. 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 2290 next to ORD to DFW
Every carrier on ORD to DFW combined arrived on time 70.4% of the time across 7,111 flights, so UA 2290 is 4 points ahead of it. United flew 2,080 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.1% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2290thin sample | 327 | 74.6% | 78 min | 0.92% | C+ |
| All United Airlines on ORD–DFW | 2,080 | 74.1% | 75 min | 1.30% | C |
| All carriers on ORD–DFW | 7,111 | 70.4% | 84 min | 2.69% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2290 quarter by quarter
UA 2290 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 83.3% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 70.0%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 65 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 202530 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202555 flights77.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights76.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights70.0%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights71.7%
Scale runs 60% to 90%.
By weekday, UA 2290 did best on Tuesday at 85.1% on time and worst on Monday at 69.6%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2290 runs when it is late
UA 2290 often beats the schedule: 108 of 323 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 82 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 20 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 41 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early108 flights33.4%
- Within 15 min133 flights41.2%
- 15–29 min late21 flights6.5%
- 30–59 min late20 flights6.2%
- 1–2 hours late24 flights7.4%
- 2+ hours late17 flights5.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 323 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
13 of 79 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2290
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 January 2026, 4 hours 27 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across January, August and June, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 3 January 2026 | 4 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 August 2026 | 4 hours 20 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 30 January 2026 | 4 hours 11 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 17 June 2026 | 3 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 June 2026 | 3 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why UA 2290 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 6,430 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Carrier
- 23%National Airspace System
- 14%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 14% 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 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,430 delay minutes reported on UA 2290.
Cancellations sit at 0.92% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.31%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
12.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 802 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.
The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including EWR to ORD (176), DFW to EWR (65) and SAV to ORD (51), but none flew often enough under UA 2290 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ORD to DFW only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 327 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 2290
For a booking, UA 2290 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 12.7% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to ORD, the return direction
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- American Airlines 2896 on the same route85.1%
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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.