Flight number record

UA 2298

United Airlines · Chicago to Minneapolis

Route: ORD → MSP
Departs: 14:20
Flights: 266
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 266 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so UA 2298 runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 51 extra late arrivals.

On time

72.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 262 completed flights

Avg delay

81 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.75%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

9.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 266 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.9% 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 2298 flies

UA 2298 flies ORD to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:20, used on 61 of 266 flights, with 14:30 (56 flights) and 14:17 (54 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 14:2061 flights22.9%
Departs 14:3056 flights21.1%
Departs 14:1754 flights20.3%

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 14:20 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and UA 2298 runs level with that at 72.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

UA 2298 next to ORD to MSP

Every carrier on ORD to MSP combined arrived on time 69.7% of the time across 6,324 flights, so UA 2298 is 3 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 69.5% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 7 points.

UA 2298 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2298thin sample	266	72.5%	81 min	0.75%	C+
All United Airlines on ORD–MSP	2,401	69.5%	70 min	1.04%	C
All carriers on ORD–MSP	6,324	69.7%	81 min	2.28%	C
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	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 and 72.7% in Apr–Jun 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%

Scale runs 65% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2298 did best on Tuesday at 82.1% on time and worst on Wednesday at 60.5%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

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 5,861 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
39%
Carrier
35%
National Airspace System
17%
Extreme weather
9%

39% 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 5,861 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 5,861 delay minutes reported on UA 2298.

Cancellations are rare at 0.75%, 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. 9.9% 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 same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including FLL to ORD (134), ATL to ORD (117) 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. 266 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 72.5% on time with 0.75% cancelled over 266 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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