Flight number record

UA 2406

United Airlines · Orlando to Houston

Route: MCO → IAH
Departs: 14:06
Flights: 328
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2406, check with United Airlines.

UA 2406 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 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 328 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 2406's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 84 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 328 completed flights

Avg delay

90 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

7.3%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 328 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 16 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 2406 flies

UA 2406 flies MCO to IAH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:06, used on 81 of 328 flights, with 13:20 (77 flights) and 13:15 (53 flights) next.

Departs 14:0681 flights24.7%
Departs 13:2077 flights23.5%
Departs 13:1553 flights16.2%

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 14:06 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and UA 2406 runs 14 points better at 85.7%. 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 2406 next to MCO to IAH

Every carrier on MCO to IAH combined arrived on time 83.5% of the time across 3,569 flights, so UA 2406 is 2 points ahead of it. United flew 2,444 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.4% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 7 points.

UA 2406 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2406thin sample	328	85.7%	90 min	0.00%	A+
All United Airlines on MCO–IAH	2,444	85.4%	79 min	0.57%	A+
All carriers on MCO–IAH	3,569	83.5%	76 min	1.01%	B
United Airlines, whole network	830,825	78.8%	73 min	1.02%	B

Across the year

UA 2406 quarter by quarter

UA 2406 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 94.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 74.2%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 66 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 flights90.0%
Oct–Dec 202555 flights89.1%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights94.4%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights81.3%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights74.2%

Scale runs 65% to 100%.

By weekday, UA 2406 did best on Tuesday at 93.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 73.9%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late UA 2406 runs when it is late

UA 2406 often beats the schedule: 179 of 328 completed flights, 55%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When UA 2406 is late it tends to be very late: 24 of its 47 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 12 were two hours or more.

15+ min early179 flights54.6%
Within 15 min102 flights31.1%
15–29 min late14 flights4.3%
30–59 min late9 flights2.7%
1–2 hours late12 flights3.7%
2+ hours late12 flights3.7%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 328 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

13 of 53 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. 7 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for UA 2406

The latest arrival of the period was on 15 June 2026, 5 hours 58 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across June, December, March and May, with no single month standing out.

The latest arrivals of UA 2406 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
15 June 2026	5 hours 58 minutes	Carrier
14 December 2025	4 hours 45 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
16 March 2026	4 hours 21 minutes	National Airspace System
1 May 2026	3 hours 39 minutes	National Airspace System
2 May 2026	3 hours 38 minutes	Extreme weather

Delay causes

Why UA 2406 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 4,206 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
36%
National Airspace System
29%
Carrier
23%
Extreme weather
11%

Extreme weather accounts for 11% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,206 delay minutes reported on UA 2406.

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

7.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 854 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.

The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including IAH to LAS (163), IAH to PHX (63) and IAH to PDX (19), but none flew often enough under UA 2406 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MCO to IAH only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 328 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 2406

For a booking, UA 2406 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.7% 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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