Flight number record

UA 2474

United Airlines · Houston to New Orleans

Route: IAH → MSY
Departs: 22:15
Flights: 328
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2474, check with United Airlines.

UA 2474 earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 328 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, UA 2474's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 80 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 327 completed flights

Avg delay

59 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 328 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 2474 flies

UA 2474 flies IAH to MSY without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:15, used on 211 of 328 flights, with 21:49 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 22:15211 flights64.3%
Departs 21:4935 flights10.7%

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 22:15 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and UA 2474 runs 15 points better at 85.6%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

UA 2474 next to IAH to MSY

Every carrier on IAH to MSY combined arrived on time 82.9% of the time across 2,962 flights, so UA 2474 is 3 points ahead of it. United flew 2,783 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.9% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 7 points.

UA 2474 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
UA 2474thin sample	328	85.6%	59 min	0.00%	A+
All United Airlines on IAH–MSY	2,783	82.9%	63 min	0.25%	B+
All carriers on IAH–MSY	2,962	82.9%	65 min	0.30%	B+
United Airlines, whole network	821,041	79.0%	72 min	1.01%	B

Across the year

UA 2474 quarter by quarter

UA 2474 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 91.3% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 77.5%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 82 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 202569 flights91.3%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights85.4%
Jan–Mar 202680 flights90.0%
Apr–Jun 202690 flights77.5%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, UA 2474 ranged from 81.4% on Saturday to 89.6% on Monday. With about 47 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 2474 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 48% of the 2,767 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
48%
Late-arriving aircraft
39%
National Airspace System
11%
Extreme weather
2%

39% 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 2,767 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 24 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 2,767 delay minutes reported on UA 2474.

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

6.7% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The same number turns up on seven other city pairs in the data, including PHL to IAH (130), BOS to IAH (49) and SAT to IAH (34), but none flew often enough under UA 2474 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IAH to MSY only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 328 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 2474

For a booking, UA 2474 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.6% on time and 0.00% 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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