Flight number record
UA 2298
United Airlines · Chicago to Minneapolis
- Route
- ORD → MSP
- Departs
- 14:30
- Flights
- 322
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2298, check with United Airlines.
UA 2298 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 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 322 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so UA 2298 runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 51 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 317 completed flights
Avg delay
86 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.93%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
11.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 322 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When UA 2298 flies
UA 2298 flies ORD to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:30, used on 91 of 322 flights, with 14:20 (61 flights) and 14:17 (54 flights) next.
- Departs 14:3091 flights28.3%
- Departs 14:2061 flights18.9%
- Departs 14:1754 flights16.8%
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 14:30 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and UA 2298 runs level with that at 72.2%. 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 2298 next to ORD to MSP
Every carrier on ORD to MSP combined arrived on time 69.9% of the time across 6,395 flights, so UA 2298 is 2 points ahead of it. United flew 2,401 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 70.2% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight trails by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2298thin sample | 322 | 72.2% | 86 min | 0.93% | C+ |
| All United Airlines on ORD–MSP | 2,401 | 70.2% | 70 min | 1.29% | C |
| All carriers on ORD–MSP | 6,395 | 69.9% | 80 min | 2.67% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2298 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2298 held fairly steady: 71.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 73.0% in Jan–Mar 2026, 72.7% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 70.9% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 2 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 20256 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights71.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights73.0%
- Apr–Jun 202679 flights72.7%
- Jul–Sep 202656 flights70.9%
Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2298 did best on Tuesday at 78.7% on time and worst on Wednesday at 66.0%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2298 runs when it is late
The 88 late arrivals split 35 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 35 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early34 flights10.7%
- Within 15 min195 flights61.5%
- 15–29 min late35 flights11.0%
- 30–59 min late18 flights5.7%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.8%
- 2+ hours late23 flights7.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 317 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
15 of 85 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. In the other direction, 18 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at MSP.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2298
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 January 2026, 7 hours 57 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, December, March and July, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 January 2026 | 7 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 December 2025 | 6 hours 30 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 15 March 2026 | 6 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 July 2026 | 6 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 December 2025 | 6 hours 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 2298 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 7,545 reported delay minutes.
- 38%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 10%Extreme weather
38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 7,545 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. The split is drawn from 7,545 delay minutes reported on UA 2298.
Cancellations sit at 0.93% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.62%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
11.0% 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 same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including FLL to ORD (134), ATL to ORD (55) and MSP to SFO (26), but none flew often enough under UA 2298 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ORD to MSP only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 322 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 2298
For a booking, read UA 2298 as 72.2% on time with 0.93% cancelled over 322 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
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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.