Flight number record

UA 2296

United Airlines · New Orleans to Houston

Route: MSY → IAH
Departs: 14:14
Flights: 295
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2296, check with United Airlines.

UA 2296 earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 295 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 2296's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 82 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 295 completed flights

Avg delay

98 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 295 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Schedule

When UA 2296 flies

UA 2296 flies MSY to IAH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:14, used on 107 of 295 flights, with 14:13 (78 flights) and 14:21 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 14:14107 flights36.3%
Departs 14:1378 flights26.4%
Departs 14:2140 flights13.6%

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 14:14 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and UA 2296 runs 13 points better at 85.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

UA 2296 next to MSY to IAH

Every carrier on MSY to IAH combined arrived on time 82.2% of the time across 2,961 flights, so UA 2296 is 4 points ahead of it. United flew 2,784 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.4% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 7 points.

UA 2296 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2296thin sample	295	85.8%	98 min	0.00%	A+
All United Airlines on MSY–IAH	2,784	82.4%	74 min	0.47%	B+
All carriers on MSY–IAH	2,961	82.2%	76 min	0.51%	B+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 2296 quarter by quarter

UA 2296 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 96.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 73.3%, a swing of 23 points on roughly 74 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 202543 flights88.4%
Oct–Dec 202575 flights96.0%
Jan–Mar 202687 flights88.5%
Apr–Jun 202690 flights73.3%

Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2296 did best on Friday at 90.7% on time and worst on Saturday at 77.5%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 2296 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 4,101 reported delay minutes.

National Airspace System
36%
Carrier
29%
Late-arriving aircraft
28%
Extreme weather
7%

36% 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 1,475 minutes out of 4,101, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,101 delay minutes reported on UA 2296.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.4% 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.

The same number turns up on five other city pairs in the data, including IAH to ORD (188), ORD to DEN (89) and SFO to MSY (15), but none flew often enough under UA 2296 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MSY to IAH only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 295 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 2296

For a booking, UA 2296 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.8% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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