Flight number record
UA 2468
United Airlines · Newark to New Orleans
- Route
- EWR → MSY
- Departs
- 12:33
- Flights
- 270
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2468, check with United Airlines.
UA 2468 lands a B+, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 270 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
79.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 268 completed flights
Avg delay
88 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.74%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
10.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 270 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When UA 2468 flies
UA 2468 flies EWR to MSY without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:33, used on 68 of 270 flights, with 12:30 (59 flights) and 12:29 (49 flights) next.
- Departs 12:3368 flights25.2%
- Departs 12:3059 flights21.9%
- Departs 12:2949 flights18.1%
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 12:33 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and UA 2468 runs level with that at 79.5%. 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 2468 next to EWR to MSY
Every carrier on EWR to MSY combined arrived on time 79.7% of the time across 1,218 flights, so UA 2468 is about level with it. United flew 1,036 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.9% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2468thin sample | 270 | 79.5% | 88 min | 0.74% | B+ |
| All United Airlines on EWR–MSY | 1,036 | 78.9% | 79 min | 1.74% | B |
| All carriers on EWR–MSY | 1,218 | 79.7% | 78 min | 2.22% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2468 quarter by quarter
UA 2468 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 92.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 69.6%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 68 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 20256 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights69.6%
- Jan–Mar 202632 flights84.4%
- Apr–Jun 202688 flights92.0%
- Jul–Sep 202652 flights70.6%
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2468 did best on Wednesday at 91.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 73.2%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2468 runs when it is late
UA 2468 often beats the schedule: 119 of 268 completed flights, 44%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 55 late arrivals split 18 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 27 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early119 flights44.4%
- Within 15 min94 flights35.1%
- 15–29 min late18 flights6.7%
- 30–59 min late10 flights3.7%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights6.0%
- 2+ hours late11 flights4.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 268 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 42 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. In the other direction, 20 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at MSY.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2468
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 November 2025, 7 hours 54 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in November 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 November 2025 | 7 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 November 2025 | 6 hours 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 July 2026 | 6 hours 22 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 28 July 2026 | 4 hours 2 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 6 November 2025 | 3 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why UA 2468 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 4,814 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%National Airspace System
- 23%Carrier
- 7%Extreme weather
39% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,814 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 4,814 delay minutes reported on UA 2468.
Cancellations are rare at 0.74%, 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
10.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 1,167 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 three other city pairs in the data, including CLE to EWR (212), RSW to EWR (108) and MSY to IAH (19), but none flew often enough under UA 2468 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to EWR to MSY 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 2468
For a booking, read UA 2468 as 79.5% on time with 0.74% cancelled over 270 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to MSY, every carrier and departure
- MSY to EWR, the return direction
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans International (MSY) delay statistics
- United Airlines on-time record
- Every United Airlines flight number with a record
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.