Flight number record
UA 2433
United Airlines · Houston to Denver
- Route
- IAH → DEN
- Departs
- 07:20
- Flights
- 270
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2433, check with United Airlines.
UA 2433 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 15 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 40 minutes. That rests on 270 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2433's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 146 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
92.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 270 completed flights
Avg delay
39 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
1.1%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 270 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 2433 flies
UA 2433 flies IAH to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:20, used on 169 of 270 flights, with 06:40 (43 flights) and 07:13 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:20169 flights62.6%
- Departs 06:4043 flights15.9%
- Departs 07:1335 flights13.0%
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 07:20 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 2433 runs 3 points better at 92.2%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
UA 2433 next to IAH to DEN
Every carrier on IAH to DEN combined arrived on time 81.2% of the time across 4,673 flights, so UA 2433 is 11 points ahead of it. United flew 3,875 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.5% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2433thin sample | 270 | 92.2% | 39 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on IAH–DEN | 3,875 | 81.5% | 69 min | 0.21% | B+ |
| All carriers on IAH–DEN | 4,673 | 81.2% | 70 min | 0.24% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 2433 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2433 held fairly steady: 90.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 90.2% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 96.5% in Jan–Mar 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights90.2%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights90.2%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights96.5%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2433 did best on Tuesday at 100.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 82.1%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 2433 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 812 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Carrier
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 39%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 320 of the 812 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 812 delay minutes reported on UA 2433.
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 1.1% 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 861 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 four other city pairs in the data, including MIA to EWR (50), BOS to DEN (41) and PHL to DEN (32), but none flew often enough under UA 2433 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IAH to DEN only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 270 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 2433
For a booking, UA 2433 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 92.2% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- IAH to DEN, every carrier and departure
- DEN to IAH, the return direction
- United Airlines 1654 on the same route63.9%
- Frontier Airlines 3229 on the same route87.0%
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.