Flight number record

UA 2290

United Airlines · Chicago to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: ORD → DFW
Departs: 12:45
Flights: 328
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 328 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 2290 runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 47 extra late arrivals.

On time

72.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 325 completed flights

Avg delay

67 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.61%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

10.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 328 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.2% 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 2290 flies

UA 2290 flies ORD to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:45, used on 179 of 328 flights, with 13:05 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 12:45179 flights54.6%
Departs 13:0540 flights12.2%

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 12:45 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and UA 2290 runs 6 points worse at 72.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

UA 2290 next to ORD to DFW

Every carrier on ORD to DFW combined arrived on time 69.7% of the time across 6,955 flights, so UA 2290 is 3 points ahead of it. United flew 2,010 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.2% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 6 points.

UA 2290 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2290thin sample	328	72.9%	67 min	0.61%	C+
All United Airlines on ORD–DFW	2,010	73.2%	72 min	1.29%	C
All carriers on ORD–DFW	6,955	69.7%	87 min	3.09%	C−
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 2290 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter UA 2290 held fairly steady: 69.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 77.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 76.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 70.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights69.6%
Oct–Dec 202555 flights77.8%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights76.4%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights70.0%

Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2290 did best on Tuesday at 83.3% on time and worst on Friday at 68.1%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

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 5,871 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
38%
Carrier
27%
National Airspace System
26%
Extreme weather
10%

38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 5,871 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 5,871 delay minutes reported on UA 2290.

Cancellations are rare at 0.61%, below the national 1.81% 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The same number turns up on five other city pairs in the data, including EWR to ORD (114), 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. 328 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, read UA 2290 as 72.9% on time with 0.61% cancelled over 328 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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