Flight number record

UA 2468

United Airlines · Newark to New Orleans

Route: EWR → MSY
Departs: 12:29
Flights: 267
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2468, check with United Airlines.

UA 2468 lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 267 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 2468's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 50 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 265 completed flights

Avg delay

75 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.75%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 267 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 2468 flies

UA 2468 flies EWR to MSY without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:29, used on 48 of 267 flights, with 12:30 (47 flights) and 11:30 (46 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 12:2948 flights18.0%
Departs 12:3047 flights17.6%
Departs 11:3046 flights17.2%

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 12:29 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and UA 2468 runs 4 points better at 82.6%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

UA 2468 next to EWR to MSY

Every carrier on EWR to MSY combined arrived on time 79.5% of the time across 1,212 flights, so UA 2468 is 3 points ahead of it. United flew 1,014 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.8% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 4 points.

UA 2468 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2468thin sample	267	82.6%	75 min	0.75%	B+
All United Airlines on EWR–MSY	1,014	78.8%	73 min	1.68%	B
All carriers on EWR–MSY	1,212	79.5%	73 min	2.15%	B
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	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 67 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 202555 flights88.9%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights69.6%
Jan–Mar 202632 flights84.4%
Apr–Jun 202688 flights92.0%

Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2468 did best on Wednesday at 91.9% on time and worst on Sunday at 76.9%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why UA 2468 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 3,444 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
48%
National Airspace System
26%
Carrier
26%
Extreme weather
1%

48% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 3,444 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 45 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 3,444 delay minutes reported on UA 2468.

Cancellations are rare at 0.75%, below the national 1.81% 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

7.2% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

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. 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 three other city pairs in the data, including CLE to EWR (150), RSW to EWR (121) 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. 267 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 82.6% on time with 0.75% cancelled over 267 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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