Flight number record
UA 2296
United Airlines · New Orleans to Houston
- Route
- MSY → IAH
- Departs
- 14:14
- Flights
- 343
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 343 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2296's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 84 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 343 completed flights
Avg delay
103 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 343 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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.
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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 343 flights, with 14:21 (80 flights) and 14:13 (78 flights) next.
- Departs 14:14107 flights31.2%
- Departs 14:2180 flights23.3%
- Departs 14:1378 flights22.7%
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 14:14 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and UA 2296 runs 14 points better at 85.7%. 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 2296 next to MSY to IAH
Every carrier on MSY to IAH combined arrived on time 83.2% of the time across 2,910 flights, so UA 2296 is 3 points ahead of it. United flew 2,740 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.2% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2296thin sample | 343 | 85.7% | 103 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on MSY–IAH | 2,740 | 83.2% | 75 min | 0.36% | B+ |
| All carriers on MSY–IAH | 2,910 | 83.2% | 79 min | 0.38% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | 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 69 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 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202575 flights96.0%
- Jan–Mar 202687 flights88.5%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights73.3%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights83.6%
Scale runs 65% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 2296 did best on Friday at 92.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 78.3%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2296 runs when it is late
UA 2296 often beats the schedule: 149 of 343 completed flights, 43%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 49 late arrivals split 14 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 23 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early149 flights43.4%
- Within 15 min145 flights42.3%
- 15–29 min late14 flights4.1%
- 30–59 min late12 flights3.5%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights2.9%
- 2+ hours late13 flights3.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 343 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 53 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. Only 6 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2296
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 March 2026, 13 hours 5 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in March 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 March 2026 | 13 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 August 2026 | 8 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 March 2026 | 4 hours 56 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 11 March 2026 | 4 hours 26 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 10 May 2026 | 4 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
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 5,063 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%National Airspace System
- 24%Carrier
- 7%Extreme weather
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,063 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 5,063 delay minutes reported on UA 2296.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% 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
6.7% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The same number turns up on five other city pairs in the data, including IAH to ORD (126), ORD to DEN (79) and IAH to DCA (45), 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. 343 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: 85.7% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- MSY to IAH, every carrier and departure
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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.