Flight number record
UA 2494
United Airlines · Fort Myers to Chicago
- Route
- RSW → ORD
- Departs
- 12:30
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2494, check with United Airlines.
UA 2494 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2494's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 98 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.55%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 2494 flies
UA 2494 flies RSW to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:30, used on 124 of 364 flights, with 12:28 (92 flights) and 12:27 (40 flights) next.
- Departs 12:30124 flights34.1%
- Departs 12:2892 flights25.3%
- Departs 12:2740 flights11.0%
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 12:30 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and UA 2494 runs 9 points better at 87.1%. 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 2494 next to RSW to ORD
Every carrier on RSW to ORD combined arrived on time 76.4% of the time across 3,238 flights, so UA 2494 is 11 points ahead of it. United flew 1,615 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.0% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2494thin sample | 364 | 87.1% | 65 min | 0.55% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on RSW–ORD | 1,615 | 80.0% | 75 min | 0.80% | B+ |
| All carriers on RSW–ORD | 3,238 | 76.4% | 84 min | 1.67% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2494 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2494 held fairly steady: 90.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 87.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 83.7% in Jan–Mar 2026, 92.2% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 83.1% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 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 202592 flights87.0%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights83.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights83.1%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, UA 2494 ranged from 80.8% on Saturday to 92.2% on Thursday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2494 runs when it is late
UA 2494 often beats the schedule: 157 of 357 completed flights, 44%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 46 late arrivals split 16 under half an hour, 14 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early157 flights44.0%
- Within 15 min154 flights43.1%
- 15–29 min late16 flights4.5%
- 30–59 min late14 flights3.9%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights2.2%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 357 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 33 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. In the other direction, 19 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 ORD.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2494
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 November 2025, 5 hours 6 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 November 2025 | 5 hours 6 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 31 March 2026 | 3 hours 9 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 11 August 2026 | 3 hours | National Airspace System |
| 18 May 2026 | 2 hours 56 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 12 August 2026 | 2 hours 28 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why UA 2494 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 76% of the 3,006 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 76%National Airspace System
- 20%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
76% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 2,276 minutes out of 3,006, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,006 delay minutes reported on UA 2494.
Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, 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 4.5% 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 1,120 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 five other city pairs in the data, including ORD to DEN (94), ORD to TPA (36) and ORD to PDX (31), but none flew often enough under UA 2494 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to RSW to ORD only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 364 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 2494
For a booking, UA 2494 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.1% on time and 0.55% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
- RSW to ORD, every carrier and departure
- ORD to RSW, the return direction
- United Airlines 2738 on the same route64.2%
- Southwest Florida International (RSW) delay statistics
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
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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.