Flight number record
UA 2361
United Airlines · Chicago to Los Angeles
- Route
- ORD → LAX
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 291
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 35 minutes. That rests on 291 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2361's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 130 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 288 completed flights
Avg delay
33 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.03%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
1.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 291 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 2361 flies
UA 2361 flies ORD to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 174 of 291 flights, with 07:10 (111 flights) next.
- Departs 07:00174 flights59.8%
- Departs 07:10111 flights38.1%
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 07:00 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 90.3%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
UA 2361 next to ORD to LAX
Every carrier on ORD to LAX combined arrived on time 72.0% of the time across 7,121 flights, so UA 2361 is 18 points ahead of it. United flew 3,416 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.7% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2361thin sample | 291 | 90.3% | 33 min | 1.03% | A |
| All United Airlines on ORD–LAX | 3,416 | 76.7% | 70 min | 0.64% | B+ |
| All carriers on ORD–LAX | 7,121 | 72.0% | 75 min | 1.33% | C |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2361 quarter by quarter
UA 2361 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 81.7%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 73 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.
- Oct–Dec 202566 flights87.9%
- Jan–Mar 202672 flights81.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights94.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights96.7%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 2361 did best on Thursday at 97.7% on time and worst on Saturday at 79.5%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2361 runs when it is late
UA 2361 often beats the schedule: 102 of 288 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 16 of the 28 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 3 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early102 flights35.4%
- Within 15 min158 flights54.9%
- 15–29 min late16 flights5.6%
- 30–59 min late9 flights3.1%
- 1–2 hours late2 flights0.7%
- 2+ hours late1 flights0.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 288 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 18 of 288 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2361
The latest arrival of the period was on 21 November 2025, 2 hours 23 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as national airspace system delay.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 21 November 2025 | 2 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 February 2026 | 1 hour 19 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 13 March 2026 | 1 hour 10 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 29 November 2025 | 46 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 14 February 2026 | 45 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why UA 2361 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 61% of the 926 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 61%National Airspace System
- 36%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
- 1%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 36%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 335 of the 926 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 926 delay minutes reported on UA 2361.
Cancellations sit at 1.03% against a national 1.89%, 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 1.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 three other city pairs in the data, including DEN to IAH (31), LAX to EWR (23) and IAD to SFO (1), 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. 291 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: 90.3% on time and 1.03% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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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.