Flight number record
UA 2612
United Airlines · Sarasota to Newark
- Route
- SRQ → EWR
- Departs
- 12:01
- Flights
- 346
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2612, check with United Airlines.
UA 2612 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 a little over an hour. That rests on 346 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2612's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 83 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 341 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.45%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
5.3%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 346 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 2612 flies
UA 2612 flies SRQ to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:01, used on 52 of 346 flights, with 12:15 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 12:0152 flights15.0%
- Departs 12:1535 flights10.1%
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 12:01 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and UA 2612 runs 7 points better at 85.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
UA 2612 next to SRQ to EWR
Every carrier on SRQ to EWR combined arrived on time 86.5% of the time across 929 flights, so UA 2612 is about level with it. United flew 799 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 87.4% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2612thin sample | 346 | 85.9% | 68 min | 1.45% | A |
| All United Airlines on SRQ–EWR | 799 | 87.4% | 84 min | 1.25% | A |
| All carriers on SRQ–EWR | 929 | 86.5% | 90 min | 2.48% | A |
| United Airlines, whole network | 821,041 | 79.0% | 72 min | 1.01% | B |
Across the year
UA 2612 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2612 held fairly steady: 90.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 81.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 84.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 86.9% 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 202592 flights90.2%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights81.6%
- Jan–Mar 202681 flights84.6%
- Apr–Jun 202684 flights86.9%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2612 did best on Friday at 96.2% on time and worst on Saturday at 78.8%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why UA 2612 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 44% of the 3,267 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.
- 44%National Airspace System
- 32%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
44% 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 1,446 minutes out of 3,267, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,267 delay minutes reported on UA 2612.
Cancellations sit at 1.45% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.3% 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 1,034 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 EWR to MIA (154), EWR to JAC (41) and EWR to DEN (37), but none flew often enough under UA 2612 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SRQ to EWR only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 346 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 2612
For a booking, UA 2612 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.9% on time and 1.45% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- SRQ to EWR, every carrier and departure
- EWR to SRQ, the return direction
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- United Airlines on-time record
- Every United Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
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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.