Flight number record
UA 2361
United Airlines · Chicago to Los Angeles
- Route
- ORD → LAX
- Departs
- 07:10
- Flights
- 278
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2361, check with United Airlines.
UA 2361 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 278 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2361's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 100 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 275 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.08%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
2.5%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 278 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 2361 flies
UA 2361 flies ORD to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:10, used on 160 of 278 flights, with 07:00 (118 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:10160 flights57.6%
- Departs 07:00118 flights42.4%
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 07:10 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 2361 runs level with that at 87.6%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
UA 2361 next to ORD to LAX
Every carrier on ORD to LAX combined arrived on time 72.5% of the time across 6,961 flights, so UA 2361 is 15 points ahead of it. United flew 3,380 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.5% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2361thin sample | 278 | 87.6% | 55 min | 1.08% | A |
| All United Airlines on ORD–LAX | 3,380 | 76.5% | 69 min | 0.65% | B+ |
| All carriers on ORD–LAX | 6,961 | 72.5% | 73 min | 1.59% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 2361 quarter by quarter
UA 2361 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 94.4% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 81.7%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 70 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 202549 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202566 flights87.9%
- Jan–Mar 202672 flights81.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights94.4%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2361 did best on Tuesday at 97.3% on time and worst on Saturday at 73.0%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 2361 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 55% of the 1,879 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 55%Carrier
- 31%National Airspace System
- 13%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 55%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,037 of the 1,879 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,879 delay minutes reported on UA 2361.
Cancellations sit at 1.08% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.5% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
At 1,744 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including DEN to IAH (31), LAX to EWR (23) and IAD to SFO (12), but none flew often enough under UA 2361 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ORD to LAX only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 278 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 2361
For a booking, UA 2361 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.6% on time and 1.08% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
- ORD to LAX, every carrier and departure
- LAX to ORD, the return direction
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- American Airlines 1979 on the same route70.8%
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.