Flight number record
UA 2385
United Airlines · Houston to New Orleans
- Route
- IAH → MSY
- Departs
- 11:55
- Flights
- 361
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2385, check with United Airlines.
UA 2385 earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 55 minutes. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2385's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 94 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights
Avg delay
53 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 361 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When UA 2385 flies
UA 2385 is scheduled to leave Houston (IAH) at 11:55 local time and reach New Orleans (MSY) at 13:14. That slot held for 290 of the 361 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 11:55290 flights80.3%
- Departs 11:5847 flights13.0%
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 11:55 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and UA 2385 runs 8 points better at 86.7%. 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 2385 next to IAH to MSY
Every carrier on IAH to MSY combined arrived on time 83.8% of the time across 2,911 flights, so UA 2385 is 3 points ahead of it. United flew 2,739 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.9% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2385thin sample | 361 | 86.7% | 53 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on IAH–MSY | 2,739 | 83.9% | 60 min | 0.11% | B+ |
| All carriers on IAH–MSY | 2,911 | 83.8% | 64 min | 0.14% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | 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 Jul–Sep 2026 at 80.6%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 72 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 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights93.5%
- Jan–Mar 202687 flights87.4%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights81.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights80.6%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 2385 ranged from 81.6% on Saturday to 90.4% on Tuesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2385 runs when it is late
UA 2385 often beats the schedule: 104 of 361 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 48 late arrivals split 17 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early104 flights28.8%
- Within 15 min209 flights57.9%
- 15–29 min late17 flights4.7%
- 30–59 min late18 flights5.0%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights2.5%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 361 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 43 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 4 made it up before arrival. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2385
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 May 2026, 3 hours 2 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across May, August, February and September, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 May 2026 | 3 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 May 2026 | 2 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 August 2026 | 2 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 February 2026 | 2 hours 3 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 2 September 2025 | 1 hour 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why UA 2385 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 2,547 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Carrier
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,547 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 2,547 delay minutes reported on UA 2385.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% 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 3.6% 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.
The same number turns up on six other city pairs in the data, including MIA to IAH (101), SAT to IAH (33) and MSY to DEN (18), 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. 361 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: 86.7% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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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.