Flight number record

UA 2385

United Airlines · Houston to New Orleans

Route: IAH → MSY
Departs: 11:55
Flights: 312
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2385, check with United Airlines.

UA 2385 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 312 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 2385's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 96 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

87.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 312 completed flights

Avg delay

55 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 312 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 2385 flies

UA 2385 flies IAH to MSY without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:55, used on 242 of 312 flights, with 11:58 (47 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:55242 flights77.6%
Departs 11:5847 flights15.1%

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 11:55 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and UA 2385 runs 8 points better at 87.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

UA 2385 next to IAH to MSY

Every carrier on IAH to MSY combined arrived on time 82.9% of the time across 2,962 flights, so UA 2385 is 4 points ahead of it. United flew 2,783 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.9% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 8 points.

UA 2385 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2385thin sample	312	87.2%	55 min	0.00%	A+
All United Airlines on IAH–MSY	2,783	82.9%	63 min	0.25%	B+
All carriers on IAH–MSY	2,962	82.9%	65 min	0.30%	B+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 2385 quarter by quarter

UA 2385 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 93.5% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 81.1%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 78 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 202543 flights86.0%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights93.5%
Jan–Mar 202687 flights87.4%
Apr–Jun 202690 flights81.1%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2385 did best on Sunday at 93.2% on time and worst on Saturday at 78.6%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 2385 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 2,205 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
43%
Carrier
32%
National Airspace System
20%
Extreme weather
5%

43% 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 2,205 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 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 2,205 delay minutes reported on UA 2385.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.8% 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.

The same number turns up on seven other city pairs in the data, including MIA to IAH (101), ORD to MSO (49) and SAT to IAH (33), but none flew often enough under UA 2385 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IAH to MSY only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 312 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 2385

For a booking, UA 2385 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.2% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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