Flight number record
UA 2442
United Airlines · Cincinnati to Houston
- Route
- CVG → IAH
- Departs
- 06:25
- Flights
- 352
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 352 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2442's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 141 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 349 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.85%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 352 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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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 352 flights, with 06:35 (92 flights) and 07:00 (69 flights) next.
- Departs 06:25133 flights37.8%
- Departs 06:3592 flights26.1%
- Departs 07:0069 flights19.6%
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 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 91.4%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
UA 2442 next to CVG to IAH
Every carrier on CVG to IAH combined arrived on time 82.4% of the time across 694 flights, so UA 2442 is 9 points ahead of it. United flew 660 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.5% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2442thin sample | 352 | 91.4% | 63 min | 0.85% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on CVG–IAH | 660 | 83.5% | 66 min | 0.91% | B+ |
| All carriers on CVG–IAH | 694 | 82.4% | 65 min | 0.86% | B+ |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2442 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2442 held fairly steady: 90.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 90.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 94.2% in Jan–Mar 2026, 89.0% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 94.1% in Jul–Sep 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 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights90.1%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights94.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights89.0%
- Jul–Sep 202651 flights94.1%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 2442 ranged from 84.6% on Saturday to 96.2% on Thursday. With about 50 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2442 runs when it is late
UA 2442 often beats the schedule: 198 of 349 completed flights, 57%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 30 late arrivals split 14 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early198 flights56.7%
- Within 15 min121 flights34.7%
- 15–29 min late14 flights4.0%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.3%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.4%
- 2+ hours late3 flights0.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 349 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 32 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 17 still arrived on time. 15 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2442
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 September 2025, 9 hours 15 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2025 | 9 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 January 2026 | 2 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 January 2026 | 2 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 September 2025 | 1 hour 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 November 2025 | 1 hour 9 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why UA 2442 runs late
Carrier accounts for 67% of the 1,882 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 67%Carrier
- 30%National Airspace System
- 1%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 67%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,267 of the 1,882 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,882 delay minutes reported on UA 2442.
Cancellations are rare at 0.85%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is 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 2.3% 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 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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including PWM to ORD (1), but none flew often enough under UA 2442 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to CVG to IAH only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 352 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: 91.4% on time and 0.85% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG) delay statistics
- George Bush Intercontinental (IAH) delay statistics
- United Airlines on-time record
- Every United Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
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 ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.