Flight number record

UA 2406

United Airlines · Orlando to Houston

Route: MCO → IAH
Departs: 13:20
Flights: 328
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 328 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 2406's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 87 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 328 completed flights

Avg delay

91 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 328 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 17 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 2406 flies

UA 2406 flies MCO to IAH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:20, used on 77 of 328 flights, with 13:15 (53 flights) and 14:08 (49 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 13:2077 flights23.5%
Departs 13:1553 flights16.2%
Departs 14:0849 flights14.9%

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 13:20 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and UA 2406 runs 8 points better at 86.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

UA 2406 next to MCO to IAH

Every carrier on MCO to IAH combined arrived on time 82.0% of the time across 3,670 flights, so UA 2406 is 4 points ahead of it. United flew 2,472 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.1% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, 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	86.3%	91 min	0.00%	A+
All United Airlines on MCO–IAH	2,472	84.1%	89 min	0.65%	B+
All carriers on MCO–IAH	3,670	82.0%	82 min	0.95%	B+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	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 Apr–Jun 2026 at 81.3%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 82 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 202592 flights81.5%
Oct–Dec 202555 flights89.1%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights94.4%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights81.3%

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

By weekday, UA 2406 did best on Monday at 91.3% on time and worst on Sunday at 78.3%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

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 4,115 reported delay minutes.

National Airspace System
39%
Late-arriving aircraft
31%
Carrier
18%
Extreme weather
12%

Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,115 delay minutes reported on UA 2406.

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

7.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The same number turns up on five other city pairs in the data, including IAH to LAS (111), 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: 86.3% 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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