Flight number record

UA 2442

United Airlines · Cincinnati to Houston

Route: CVG → IAH
Departs: 06:25
Flights: 362
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2442, check with United Airlines.

UA 2442 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 14 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 362 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 2442's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 137 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

91.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights

Avg delay

67 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.38%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 362 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 2442 flies

UA 2442 flies CVG to IAH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:25, used on 133 of 362 flights, with 07:00 (130 flights) and 06:35 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:25133 flights36.7%
Departs 07:00130 flights35.9%
Departs 06:3541 flights11.3%

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 06:25 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and UA 2442 runs 2 points better at 91.3%. 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 2442 next to CVG to IAH

Every carrier on CVG to IAH combined arrived on time 83.4% of the time across 676 flights, so UA 2442 is 8 points ahead of it. United flew 625 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.5% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 12 points.

UA 2442 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2442thin sample	362	91.3%	67 min	1.38%	A
All United Airlines on CVG–IAH	625	84.5%	71 min	1.12%	B
All carriers on CVG–IAH	676	83.4%	71 min	1.04%	B
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 2442 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter UA 2442 held fairly steady: 92.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 90.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 94.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 89.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202591 flights92.1%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights90.1%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights94.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights89.0%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2442 ranged from 86.3% on Saturday to 94.2% on Tuesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why UA 2442 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 71% of the 2,067 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.

Carrier
71%
National Airspace System
27%
Late-arriving aircraft
1%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 71%, 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 1,466 of the 2,067 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,067 delay minutes reported on UA 2442.

Cancellations sit at 1.38% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.5% 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 871 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.

Every one of the 362 flights under UA 2442 in the data flew CVG to IAH. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 362 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 2442

For a booking, UA 2442 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 91.3% on time and 1.38% 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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