Flight number record
UA 2494
United Airlines · Fort Myers to Chicago
- Route
- RSW → ORD
- Departs
- 12:30
- Flights
- 315
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 315 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2494's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 108 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 311 completed flights
Avg delay
64 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.32%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
3.9%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 315 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
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 315 flights, with 12:28 (64 flights) and 12:42 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 12:30124 flights39.4%
- Departs 12:2864 flights20.3%
- Departs 12:4232 flights10.2%
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 12:30 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and UA 2494 runs 10 points better at 88.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
UA 2494 next to RSW to ORD
Every carrier on RSW to ORD combined arrived on time 76.5% of the time across 3,232 flights, so UA 2494 is 12 points ahead of it. United flew 1,612 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.7% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2494thin sample | 315 | 88.4% | 64 min | 0.32% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on RSW–ORD | 1,612 | 80.7% | 73 min | 0.68% | B+ |
| All carriers on RSW–ORD | 3,232 | 76.5% | 81 min | 1.70% | B |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 2494 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2494 held fairly steady: 93.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 87.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 83.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 92.2% in Apr–Jun 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 202543 flights93.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.0%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights83.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.2%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2494 did best on Wednesday at 95.3% on time and worst on Saturday at 82.2%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 2494 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 74% of the 2,287 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.
- 74%National Airspace System
- 22%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
74% 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 1,703 minutes out of 2,287, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,287 delay minutes reported on UA 2494.
Cancellations are rare at 0.32%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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. 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 seven other city pairs in the data, including ORD to DEN (94), JAC to ORD (48) and ORD to TPA (36), 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. 315 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: 88.4% on time and 0.32% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.